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 ...

A recently released forecast predicted a larger-then-normal dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this summer. The dead zone, or hypoxic area, is an area in a body of water with low oxygen that can be ...

The number of known hypoxic pockets of ocean has dramatically ... Scientists have announced that the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone"—where there is so little oxygen that the ocean becomes ...

Eugene Turner and Nancy Rabalais wrote in “2017 Forecast: Summer Hypoxic Zone Size, Northern Gulf of Mexico.” Even during a usual year, the dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico is the largest in ...

The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority met on Wednesday to discuss environmental and navigational issues affecting ...

Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium are forecasting that this year’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic “dead” zone will be between 7,286 and 8,561 square miles ...

An illustration shows how runoff from river basins leads to hypoxic "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration video capture) New research on the cost of ...

"The Gulf of Mexico algal bloom is a really big ... Because of this, fish die or migrate away from the hypoxic area, creating dead zones in the Gulf." By estimating how much fertilizer each ...

As a result, we contribute to Lake Pepin filling up with sediment at an accelerated rate and the hypoxia zone down in the Gulf of Mexico. WATER – “Downstream Impacts” Everyone lives ...

An illustration shows how runoff from river basins leads to hypoxic "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico.

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