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 ...

The zone also brings a higher risk of earthquakes and volcanic activity. Since the Atlantic Ocean has been growing, it is only a matter of time before it begins to shrink, according to the Wilson ...

This research could also have critical implications for human activity in the deep ... on deep-sea areas in the Pacific Ocean, including parts of the hadal zone, which extends to depths of 36,000 ...