Nearly 6,000 square miles - an area roughly the size of Connecticut - will become a "dead zone" for marine life in the Gulf ...

Just off the coast of Louisiana and Texas where the Mississippi River empties, the ocean is dying. The cyclical event known as the dead zone occurs every year, but scientists predict that this ...

NOAA is forecasting this summer's Gulf of America (formerly Gulf of Mexico) "dead zone" to be average-sized, covering ...

The “dead zone” forms in the Gulf of Mexico every summer. It’s caused by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, largely from farm fertilizer and municipal runoff, which are carried down ...

Nearly 6,000 square miles - an area roughly the size of Connecticut - will become a "dead zone" for marine life in the Gulf of Mexico this summer, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing r.white@newsweek.com A so-called "dead zone" the size of Connecticut is set to wreak havoc in the Gulf of Mexico this summer, the National Oceanic and ...

The Gulf of Mexico’s hypoxic “dead zone” at the end of the Mississippi River is seen by satellite south of Louisiana in 2017. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/The Minnesota ...

Did you know there's a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico? No, we're not talking about the 1983 sci-fi horror film, or the early 2000s sci-fi TV series. This one is very much real.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Scientists are researching a large “dead zone” in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and a ...

A “dead zone” the size of Connecticut is choking plant and animal life in the Gulf of Mexico and Arkansas is contributing to the problem– though it’s not clear how much. Fertilizer that ...

Treading Water: Unfocused and underfunded, goal of cleaner water falters Rabalais’ research put the Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” on the scientific map and into the nation’s psyche ...

There's a massive area in the Gulf of Mexico that is so low in oxygen, fish and other aquatic life can't live there. It's called a dead zone. The EPA says it's mainly due to excessive fertilizer ...