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 ...

Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across the seafloor. The nodules are rich in metals which are key ingredients for ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

which rains down into the deeper ocean where it will be degraded,” creating what’s commonly called “dead zones,” or areas with oxygen too low to sustain most marine life, Treude said.

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 ...