Today’s largest open ocean dead zone, located in the eastern Pacific Ocean, emerged eight million years ago as a result of increasing nutrient content in the ocean, an international team of scientists ...

According to The Paper, citing multiple sources, there are currently five major oceanic garbage patches identified worldwide, one in the Indian Ocean, two in the Atlantic and two in the Pacific.

La Niña, a natural cooling of ocean water in part of the Pacific, tends to boost Atlantic hurricane activity, while its opposite El Niño tends to suppress Atlantic storms. Once La Niña fades ...