The Discovery Cube Orange County has always been about hands-on learning, and its newest exhibit is no exception – except it might be a little slimier of an experience. The Santa Ana-based children’s ...

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 ...

Source: "Photo taken by Zoe Weil" It’s no secret that type 2 diabetes is on the rise among children in the U.S. It’s also no secret that there’s a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico where the ocean has ...

A N.C. State University study used fossilized plankton and computer modeling to determine where the ocean had low oxygen levels during a warm period millions of years ago compared to now. It found ...

In the last 50 years, oxygen-deficient zones in the open ocean have increased. Scientists have attributed this development to rising global temperatures: Less oxygen dissolves in warmer water, and the ...

Just as Earth’s land surface has enormous peaks and valleys, the oceanic world has similarly varied topography. Perhaps the most intriguing of these features is the Mariana Trench — a chasm in the ...