An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite image of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, where 'dead zones' can ...

The global science community is watching the problem of oxygen depletion in marine and coastal areas with growing concern. Over the last few years the number of known dead zones globally has increased ...

This one is very much real. For decades, an oxygen-depleted dead zone that is harmful to sea life has appeared in the Gulf of ...

The size of the dead zone peaks annually in July. The dead zone in the Gulf has been monitored for the past 32 years. It stretches from the mouth of the Mississippi River into Texas and is created ...

These algae blooms then die and sink to the bottom of the ocean, depriving fish and other underwater creatures of the oxygen they need to survive. This creates an aptly named "dead zone." ...

counteracting oxygen deficiency and so-called dead zones. In a recent study, researchers from Kiel University have now demonstrated for the first time that there are two different types of major ...