The Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone is an area in the northern gulf that has too little oxygen to support most marine animals (hypoxic means oxygen deprived). The zone exists because of the flood of ...

Eugene Turner and Nancy Rabalais wrote in “2017 Forecast: Summer Hypoxic Zone Size, Northern Gulf of Mexico.” Even during a usual year, the dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico is the largest in ...

Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium are forecasting that this year’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic “dead” zone will be between 7,286 and 8,561 square miles ...

This year's dead zone far exceeds the 1,900 square-mile goal set by the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force, a collaborative ...

Nitrogen from fertilizers, transported by rainfall and runoff, dominates pollution in the Gulf of Mexico during wet seasons.

As opposed to a constant flow from sources above and below ground, periods of heavy rain and runoff deliver the greatest ...

The dead zone stretches from the mouth of the Mississippi River into Texas and is created by low oxygen levels in water, which is called hypoxia. The low oxygen is linked to high concentrations of ...

As opposed to a constant flow from sources above and below ground, periods of heavy rain and runoff deliver the ...