"The benefit of this long-term data set is that it helps decision makers as they adjust their strategies to reduce the dead zone and manage impacts to coastal resources and communities." ...

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 ...

Gulf Coast dead zones come and go yearly, dissipating during cooler months. But experts say they will persist for years, even in the best-case scenario. A 2018 study in the journal Science said ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Abstract Coastal zones in the United States are becoming overpopulated and underlying ecosystems are being degraded. The ecosystem ...

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 ...