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 ...

It carries more than 100 times as much water as all the world's rivers combined. It reaches from the ocean's surface to its bottom, and measures as much as 2,000 kilometers across. It connects the ...

636. The second ocean steam vessel was the steam brig New York, built at the foot of Newcastle Street, Norfolk, Va., in 1821, by William F. Hunter, ship joiner. She was of 281 tons burden and 50 ...

The story started with a call from a professor at UC Santa Barbara who had found something during an unrelated underwater research mission. From that tip, ...

NGM MAPS. Source: “spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world’s ocean,” Ben S. Halpern and others, Nature Communications; UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected ...