The Washington Post recently noted that several years ago, the Chesapeake Bay was hit by an unusually large “dead zone,” a stretch of oxygen-depleted water that killed fish from the Baltimore Harbor to the mid-channel of the Potomac River and beyond, about a third of the bay.

From the Chesapeake to the Gulf of Mexico to the California coast, in a future of climate change those behemoth dead zones may not seem so unusual, according to a new report released by the Smithsonian. As global temperatures warm, it will create conditions such as rain, wind and sea-level rise that will cause dead zones throughout the world to intensify and grow, the report says.  >Read More via the WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/2014/11/10/e7abd07c-65f1-11e4-9fdc-d43b053ecb4d_story.html