They said their petition documented “how excessive nitrogen and phosphorous pollution in the Mississippi River Basin and northern Gulf of Mexico has caused a large zone of hypoxia (i.e., a low oxygen ...

A West Virginia University researcher is working to understand and estimate environmental cleanup costs associated with ...

A recently released forecast predicted a larger-then-normal dead ... dead zone and the ongoing efforts to minimize its damage being carried out by the Interagency Mississippi River and Gulf ...

Scientists have announced that the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone"—where there is so ... particularly from agricultural runoff in the Mississippi River watershed, as far north as St Paul, Minnesota.

An update of Louisiana's strategy to help reduce the low-oxygen “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is being ... the dead zone flows down the Mississippi River from agricultural Midwestern ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Southwest Pass, where the river approaches the Gulf of Mexico and it splits into multiple lanes, is one such area. The lower Mississippi is the top port region of the U.S. in terms of freight ...

A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi River on a training row ... where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way, it passes through the cities of ...