Creeping Dead Zones – on sea and ocean floors
NASA – March 29, 2007 “Dead zones” in this context are areas where the bottom water (the water at the sea floor) is anoxic – meaning that it has very low (or completely zero) concentrations of dissolved oxygen. These dead zones are occurring in many areas along the coasts of major continents, and they are spreading over larger areas of the sea floor. Because very few organisms can tolerate the. . . CONTINUE
