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 study led by scientists at William & Mary's Batten School & VIMS has demonstrated surprising variability in the results of ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm about growing dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. Dead zones are areas of water with hypoxia, or dangerously low levels of oxygen. Dead zones are caused by ...

The resulting algal blooms are subject to decay by microbes which consume oxygen, causing hypoxia (oxygen shortage) and generating coastal dead zones,such as in the Gulf of Mexico. This process is ...

In past years, a summertime dead zone spread roughly two-thirds the length ... how much water gets flushed out with the tides. In some coastal waters the nitrogen pollution comes primarily from ...

Spreading dead zones and consequences for marine ecosystems ... Nuisance phytoplankton blooms in coastal, estuarine, and inland waters. Limnology and Oceanography 33, 823-847 (1988).

The annual extent of these dead zones is monitored as a key indicator of Bay health ... who led the study while earning his ...