Tropical Storm Barry has dissipated over eastern Mexico, the National Hurricane Center announced. Heavy rain was still ...

Efforts to reduce nutrient runoff into the Gulf are largely outlined in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Hypoxia Task Force Action Plan. Long-term, its goal is to reduce the dead zone to about ...

NOAA scientists have forecast that the annual “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, currently referred to as the Gulf of America ...

The Cost of Renewable Fuel Incentives: A Two-Part Policy Analysis Series Part I: The Consumer Costs and Climate Impacts of the RFS Media Inquiries For general and media inquiries and to book our ...

The annual forecast for the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, ... That study predicts the hypoxic zone to be around 4,800 square miles by taking into account how warmer water temperatures ...

As the Earth heats up, the amount of algae in our waterways is rapidly increasing, transforming the colour of lakes and ...

The task force set a goal to cap the hypoxic zone size in the Gulf of Mexico to 1,900 square miles by 2015. However, the dead zone in 2017 exceeded that goal by four times— 8,776 square miles .

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.

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 decades, ...

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.

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 ...

The dead zone, or hypoxic area, is an area in a body of water with low oxygen that can be fatal for fish and marine life. This year it spans 5,827 square miles, which is larger than the average ...