D id 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.

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.

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 Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force, a partnership formed in 1997 between federal and state agencies and the National Tribal Water Council, aims to reduce the dead zone to ...

To heal the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, we have to look north to Midwest farms There’s a massive area in the Gulf of Mexico that’s so low in oxygen, aquatic life can’t survive there.

Officials in the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force, a partnership between state and federal agencies, have set a goal of reducing the five-year average dead zone size to less ...

Scientists have released their 2023 forecast for the so-called "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico — predicting it will be about 4,100 square miles this summer. That's much bigger than last year ...

Image showing (Top) Map of measured Gulf hypoxia zone, July 21–26, 2024. Red area denotes 2 mg/L of oxygen or lower, the level which is considered hypoxic, at the bottom of the seafloor.

Every year, the hypoxic “dead zone” materializes as a large area of nearly uninhabitable waters in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientist Nancy Rabalais, who has spent decades researching the area, is ...

This year, the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico entered into the top third of largest dead zones in records that go back 38 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.

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. For ...