Trying to predict the scale and location of future dead zones, scientists have looked to the past for historical clues. Today’s largest open ocean dead zone, located in the eastern Pacific Ocean, ...

2009 Microbial Oceanography of the Dark Ocean... Microbial Oceanography of the Dark Ocean's Pelagic Realm This is the metadata section ... suggest that integrated respiration in the dark ocean's water ...

The pelagic zone refers to the open ... changed shape as sharks expanded their habitat from the bottom to the open ocean.” Longer pectoral fins help make shark movements much more efficient.

According to one school of thought, pollutants are diluted to safe levels by the time they reach the open ocean. But are the creatures that live here really protected from chemicals? In the past ...