In an annual prediction of the size of the Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone,” scientists this week said this summer ... or practical means of addressing these concerns at this time.” This according to a ...

Scientists have announced that the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone"—where there is so little ... meaning their need for oxygen paradoxically increases at a time the ocean can't hold as much.

An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite image of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, where 'dead zones' can ...

That means that anything that goes into those rivers ends up down the Mississippi and ultimately into the Gulf of Mexico ... zone at the mouth of the Mississippi that is starved of oxygen. This ...

The low-oxygen conditions that form in the Gulf each summer kill bottom-living organisms and result in fish and shrimp moving ...