The map is a fascinating representation of the protection geography and meteorology gives the millions of people who live in the mid-Atlantic region.

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 ...

Scientists have announced that the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone"—where there is so little oxygen that the ocean becomes unsurvivable—is now the size of New Jersey. Around 6,705 square miles of ...

More specifically, the tropics. Dead zones are low-oxygen regions in the ocean where few sea life can survive. The main cause is human pollution. Until now, dead zones were thought to dominate ...

This means the storm was no longer feeding off ocean waters, and did not have the structural characteristics of a typical hurricane anymore. This is why Sandy is not listed in the landfall maps!" ...