The United Nations is now developing a set of regulations for ocean waters beyond 200 miles from national boundaries, outside exclusive economic zones.
marine life
Physical Geography
Aquatic Dead Zones
Aquatic dead zones are bodies of water where the oxygen conditions are so low that marine life is unable to be supported. The condition, known as hypoxia, occurs when dissolved oxygen (typically below 2 mg/l) is below the threshold needed to sustain life and the water becomes a biological desert. Aquatic […]
Physical Geography
Census of Marine Life
A $650-million project that has been ongoing since May of 2000 to inventory and document every species in the world’s oceans is nearing completion. Over 400 shipboard expeditions have yielded more than 5,600 new species and located species long thought extinct such as a shrimp thought extinct for 50 million […]