NOAA announced Thursday that their annual measurement of the largest dead zone in U.S. waters, the Gulf of Mexico dead zone, is roughly the size of New Jersey. A dead zone is an area where oxygen ...

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 ...

The Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone, an area with critically low oxygen levels, is significantly larger this year, covering about 6,700 square miles. It makes this the twelfth largest dead zone in ...

The northern Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” area with little to no oxygen will become larger than the state of Connecticut by the end of July, according to a study published Thursday. (CN) – The ...

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

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 ...

Distribution of dissolved oxygen in bottom water west of the Mississippi River delta (July 28-August 3, 2015). Black line denotes area with less than two milligrams of oxygen per liter of bottom ...

A significant shift in the storm’s forecast track means the threat to the US is dwindling, but is increasing for Mexico’s Gulf Coast ... system in the western zone that caused oscillations ...

Deaths, power outages, and billions in destruction; the damage of Hurricane Milton is still unfolding, but is it one of the worst this century? Alicja Hagopian and Julia Musto report ...

and to the Gulf of Mexico dead zone, where it threatens one of the most productive fisheries in the world. Student journalists found that the industry wields outsized political power; that farmers ...