A recently released forecast predicted a larger-then-normal dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this summer ... can affect not just the people and animals on land, but also commerce and marine ...

As a result, marine animals either flee the area or die ... Scientists have announced that the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone"—where there is so little oxygen that the ocean becomes unsurvivable ...

The Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone is an area in the northern gulf that has too little oxygen to support most marine animals (hypoxic means oxygen deprived). The zone exists because of the flood of ...

An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite image of the Northern Gulf of Mexico ... starved ocean “dead ...

In an annual prediction of the size of the Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone,” scientists this week said this summer’s will be the third-largest ever: roughly the size of New Jersey. NEW ORLEANS (CN) – In ...

New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching ...

That means that anything that goes into those rivers ends up down the Mississippi and ultimately into the Gulf of Mexico ... zone at the mouth of the Mississippi that is starved of oxygen. This ...

An update of Louisiana's strategy to help reduce the low-oxygen “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is being criticized as inadequate because of its reliance on a proposed project now in ...

New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching ...