Scientists are sounding the alarm about growing dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. Dead zones are areas of water with hypoxia, or dangerously low levels of oxygen. Dead zones are caused by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Charlie Carlson, Hawkins' grandson, author of "Weird Florida" and the person who coined the "Dead Zone" nickname ... Florida before moving into the Gulf of Mexico, abruptly and unexpectedly ...

So, nitrates from cropland and large livestock operations flow into our waterways and on to the dead zone in the Gulf of ...

and several dead — another system is making its way towards the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Other than the new tropical system west of the Cabo Verde Islands, which is unlikely to develop ...

Six people were initially reported injured and taken to hospitals in nearby Campeche Sunday after a Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico was set ablaze following an ...

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 ...

Corn is a cornerstone of our agricultural system, feeding livestock, fueling cars, and appearing in processed foods. Yet, ...

Nutrient-rich runoff water from fields helps fuel the infamous algal blooms in Lake Erie -- as well as, for example, in the northern Gulf of Mexico ... referred to as "dead zones." ...