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 ...

Continents and oceans have scientific definitions that underpin international law. The idea of dividing the world into ...

Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the work of plate tectonics. More specifically, subduction zones — where tectonic plates slip ...

Over the past year, the project – which has won Impact project/Investment of the Year for oceans and coastal zones – has made progress on the marine planning process to decide which areas of the ocean ...