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 ...

Debris and toxins released from the fires can damage kelp forests and lead to destructive algal blooms that snuff out ocean ...

The initiative follows last year's discovery of this phenomenon, which defies the traditional scientific understanding of how ...

It's the size of Florida. Dead zones are areas of the ocean with low oxygen that can no longer support marine life. It's caused by warming oceans and agricultural runoff. "The ocean is suffocating ...