E/The Environmental Magazine: Scientists from the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Hawaii unveiled new research last week showing that steadily warming sea surface waters are causing the least biologically productive swaths of the world’s oceans–so-called "ocean deserts"–to expand at an unprecedented rate (some 15 percent on average) over a nine-year period ending in 2007. "The warming increases stratification of the ocean waters, preventing deep ocean nutrients …