A dangerously low oxygen level—usually below 92%—can cause shortness of breath, confusion, chest pain, or fainting. It’s often triggered by lung or heart conditions like COPD, asthma, or heart ...

Marine life receives its oxygen from warm water on the ocean's surface, but if there's no mixing with the colder water sitting below, then bottom-dwelling marine life, like lobsters, are unable to ...

Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...

Patients continuously monitored after surgery experienced significantly less time with dangerously low oxygen levels compared ...

A recent study explored one possible cause -- hyperoxia or high concentrations of oxygen given to such patients during surgery -- as opposed to doses more similar to air. The study concluded that ...

Scientists have long known that people living at high altitudes, where oxygen levels are low, have lower rates of diabetes than people living closer to sea level. But the mechanism of this protection ...

Jennifer Mallon receives funding from US-UK Fulbright Commission, Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program, University of Glasgow Early Career Mobility Award and the Link Foundation. Adrian Michael ...

You could call it “Dead Zone East,” a 1,634-square-mile area of Gulf of Mexico bottom waters with dangerously low levels of oxygen on the east side of the Mississippi River. It's a bit larger than the ...

Gray seals may possess a secret sense that helps them survive at sea. The marine mammals adjusted their time spent underwater based on the amount of oxygen in the air they breathed before diving, ...

Remarkable animals like naked mole rats, turtles, and fish have evolved astonishing biological adaptations to survive in ...