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 ...

Scientists have a different idea of the twilight zone. To them, it’s an area of the open ocean where most fish live – depths of 650 to 3,200 feet. Little is known about this part of the ocean ...

Coastal seas form a complex transition zone between the two largest CO 2 ... of CO 2 uptake is higher in coastal seas than in the open ocean. This is evidenced by a study published in the journal ...

Zooplankton were still more prevalent on the seamounts compared to the open ocean, with twice as many ... square-kilometer (171,815-square-mile) zone where no large-scale commercial fishing ...

extending at least 5km into the open ocean. The seamounts in the study are all within the Ascension Island Marine Protected Area -- a 445,000 square km zone where no large-scale commercial fishing ...