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This summer's Gulf of America "dead zone" is forecast to span 5,574 square miles — about three times the size of Delaware, ...

A dead zone forms when large quantities of algae accumulate in the water and eventually die, stripping the water of its oxygen content. Skip to content. FOX 2.

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

Floodwaters loaded with farm runoff are heading down the Mississippi River, and scientists fear the deluge will dramatically increase this summer's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. IE 11 is not ...

A so-called "dead zone" the size of Connecticut is set to wreak havoc in the Gulf of Mexico this summer, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has forecast.

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 announced that the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone"—where there is so little oxygen that the ocean becomes unsurvivable—is now the size of New Jersey. Around 6,705 square miles of ...

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 ...

The Gulf of Mexico dead zone is a complex environmental issue, but it is also a solvable problem. We can avoid the ecological and economic damage that results from allowing algae to choke the Gulf ...

A “dead zone” the size of Connecticut is choking plant and animal life in the Gulf of Mexico and Arkansas is contributing to the problem– though it’s not clear how much.