They said their petition documented “how excessive nitrogen and phosphorous pollution in the Mississippi River Basin and northern Gulf of Mexico has caused a large zone of hypoxia (i.e., a low oxygen ...

The Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” will cover ... assistant administrator of NOAA’s National Ocean Service. The dead zone runs ...

A recently released forecast predicted a larger-then-normal dead ... dead zone and the ongoing efforts to minimize its damage being carried out by the Interagency Mississippi River and Gulf ...

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 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 first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...

"The Gulf of Mexico algal bloom ... the values of reducing the dead zone in the Gulf as well as the values of improved upstream ecosystems in the Mississippi River Basin." In the next phase ...

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, where 'dead zones' can ...

The findings clarify how nitrogen is delivered to the gulf and ... oxygen depleted ‘dead zones’,” Wang said. “These issues are primarily driven by nitrogen pollution transported via rivers, with the ...

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.

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