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 ...
A recently released forecast predicted a larger-then-normal dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this summer. The dead zone, or hypoxic area, is an area in a body of water with low oxygen that can be ...
The number of known hypoxic pockets of ocean has dramatically ... Scientists have announced that the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone"—where there is so little oxygen that the ocean becomes ...
A study utilized satellite-derived ocean color variables and dissolved oxygen measurements to estimate the spatial and temporal changes in hypoxia zones in the Gulf of Mexico. The findings ...
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 ...
New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching ...
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 ...
A West Virginia University researcher is working to understand and estimate environmental cleanup costs associated with ...
New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching ...
An illustration shows how runoff from river basins leads to hypoxic "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico.