Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human ...

A 'dead zone' off the Gulf coast is larger than NOAA predicted. The massive area poses danger to marine life, and recovery ...

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 ...

U.S. scientists are investigating whether expanding oceanic dead zones areas with dangerously low oxygen levels are behind the increasing number of mass fish strandings along the nation’s shores. As ...

When the oxygen levels go down, dead zones will expand. These are areas of the ocean where the water quality is too poor to sustain life. Pollution will only add to the devastation unless we stop it.

Crumbling ice sheets, rising seas, melting glaciers, ocean dead zones, toxic algae blooms -- a raft of impacts on sea and ice are decimating fish stocks, destroying renewable sources of fresh ...

“Billions of gallons of biofuels means millions of acres of additional habitat destroyed, more water pollution and ocean dead zones, and greater harm to endangered species,” said Brett Hartl, ...

In addition to the Slow Zone east of Ocean City, more Slow Zones are also ... To report a right whale sighting from Virginia to Maine, or a dead, injured or entangled whale, contact NOAA Fisheries ...