Scientists alarmed by ocean dead-zone growth By David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor(08-14) 18:03 PDTSAN FRANCISCO -- Dead zones where fish and most marine life can no longer survive are spreading across the continental shelves of the world's oceans at an alarming rate as oxygen vanishes from coastal waters, scientists reported Thursday.The scientists place the problem [...]

By Anne Minard, National Geographic NewsAugust 14, 2008"Dead zones" are on the rise, says a new study that identified stark growth in the number of coastal areas where the water has too little oxygen to sustain marine life. There are now more than 400 known dead zones in coastal waters worldwide, compared to 305 in [...]

Ocean Dead Zones Growing; May Be Linked to Warming By James Owen, National Geographic NewsMay 1, 2008HYypoxic zones—swaths of ocean too oxygen-deprived to support fish and other marine organisms—are rapidly expanding as sea temperatures rise, a new study suggests. Researchers have tracked a decline in dissolved oxygen levels since 1960 in the tropical Pacific and [...]

Ocean dead zones become a worldwide problem By RANDOLPH E. SCHMIDWASHINGTON (AP) — Like a chronic disease spreading through the body, "dead zones" with too little oxygen for life are expanding in the world's oceans."We have to realize that hypoxia is not a local problem," said Robert J. Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine [...]

Ocean 'dead zones' expanding worldwide: studyAugust 15, 2008; AFP, Washingtonhttp://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5imNw46Qtnbj-iu2kI06tYJoWEVIQ WASHINGTON (AFP) — Oceanic "dead zones" where marine life cannot survive have been steadily increasing over the past five decades and now encompass 400 coastal areas of the world, a US-Swedish study said Friday.The number of these areas, in which aquatic ecosystems disappear due to [...]

'Dead Zones' Appear In Waters Worldwide New Study Estimates More Than 400 By Joel Achenbach--Washington Post Staff WriterFriday, August 15, 2008; Page A02In the latest sign of trouble in the planet's chemistry, the number of oxygen-starved "dead zones" in coastal waters around the world has roughly doubled every decade since the 1960s, killing fish, crabs [...]

Ocean Dead Zones on the Rise By BINA VENKATARAMANAugust 14, 2008 Coastal oceans are being starved of oxygen at an alarming rate, researchers are reporting, with vast stretches of water along the seafloor depleted of oxygen to the point that they can barely sustain marine life. The main culprit, scientists say, is nitrogen-rich nutrients from [...]

Report: Dolly Aerated Gulf Dead ZoneWeekly News Summary For August 11 - August 17, 2008:It sounds like the script of a low budget Frankenstein movie: well-meaning scientists create a monster which leaves a “Dead Zone” in its wake until howling winds of a storm come to the rescue. Returning from the Gulf of Mexico to [...]

LETTER: Ethanol and the Dead ZoneAugust 6, 2008 To the Editor:Related Editorial: Death in the Gulf of Mexico (August 4, 2008) Re “Death in the Gulf of Mexico” (editorial, Aug. 4):The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, caused by agricultural, sewage and industrial runoff, is expected to grow just as the Environmental Protection Agency [...]

Gulf Dead Zone Escapes Record for Now By Robert MorleyAugust 5, 2008--From theTrumpet.com« Jellyfish, known to thrive in damaged environments, are thriving throughout the world’s oceans.(Jose Luis Roca/AFP/Getty Images) The “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico escaped setting a new size record this year. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the [...]