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 ...

Air pollution from burning fossil fuels is adding to fertiliser run-off and sewage to kill marine life in global dead zones. Cutting out coal-burning and other sources of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from ...

The Pacific Northwest's dead zone, which might be an irreversible result of climate change, is heading south and has already reached California No paywalls. No subscriptions.

The dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay, where there's low oxygen for underwater life, was near its average size in 2024, ...

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 ...

"Imagine you drive through a landscape where the trees look half withered, everything is bare and naked, and the animals are either dead or have escaped the area. That is how it looks in the oceans.” ...

The Chesapeake Bay Dead Zone remains within averages, according to a new report. An increase of nitrogen from things like ...

An exceptionally dense algal bloom along the north shore of the York River. These blooms are caused by excess nutrients ...