Ocean Dead Zones Much Worse Than Previously Thought–Vast Regions Devoid Of Life Could Soon Be The New Normal Stephen King wrote a novel called “The Dead Zone” in 1979, but the horrors he imagined are nothing compared to a new dead zone that scientists are only just now beginning to grapple with. These zones of death are areas of the ocean where the oxygen has been so depleted due to climate change and the warming of the water that life cannot continue to function there as it has for millions of years.… Read the rest