Climate change is having devastating effects all over the world, including on this iconic American River whose troubled ...

The annual forecast for the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has renamed the Gulf of America, ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) - The National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium in Dubuque says it has reopened its Gulf of Mexico exhibit. It comes after a propylene glycol leak in the HVAC system in ...

No one, in a state bordered by the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River, the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway and the Tennessee River, touching the state’s northeast corner, could back up that data.

The Mississippi River drains about 41% of the nation's water systems into the Gulf of Mexico. The river itself begins at Lake Itasca in Minnesota and runs through 10 states before it reaches the Gulf.

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 the ...

Murky, sediment-rich Mississippi River water mixes with saltwater in the Gulf of Mexico on June 7, 2024. Nutrient runoff from 41% of the United States flows down the Mississippi, creating a ...

GULFPORT, Miss. — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to protect dolphins along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after dozens were killed or sickened in 2019 following the prolonged ...

NOAA-supported scientists announced today that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone ... based primarily on Mississippi River discharge and nutrient runoff data from the U.S. Geological ...

A “dead zone” of low-or no- dissolved oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is roughly the size of New Jersey this year, researchers at Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine ...