An expansive portion of the northern Gulf of Mexico, stretching from Texas to Florida, has very low oxygen levels. Those levels sink even further every summer, creating a hypoxic or “dead ...

The largest hypoxic zone was in 2017 when 8,776-squre-miles of the Gulf of Mexico had little to no oxygen. These measurements have been mapped since 1985, but this is only the fourth year NOAA has ...

NOAA-supported scientists have announced that this year's Gulf of Mexico "dead zone"—an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life—is approximately 6,705 square miles, the ...

The Gulf of Mexico hypoxic or low-oxygen zone, also called a dead zone, is an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and other marine life.

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.

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 ...

For decades, an oxygen-depleted "dead zone" that is harmful to sea life has appeared in the Gulf of Mexico in a region off Louisiana and Texas. This year, it's larger than average, federal ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Low flow from the Mississippi River contributed to a smaller-than-average hypoxia zone in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently ...

The hypoxic zone — an area of low to no oxygen — in the Gulf of Mexico is about 3,058 square miles. The "dead zone" can kill fish and marine life.

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.

Long-term measured size of the hypoxic zone (green bars) measured during the ship surveys since 1985, including the target ...