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

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 ...

T he Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone, an area with critically low oxygen levels, is significantly larger this year, covering about 6,700 square miles. It makes this the twelfth largest dead zone in ...

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 ...

In an annual prediction of the size of the Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone,” scientists this week said this summer’s will be the third-largest ever: roughly the size of New Jersey. NEW ORLEANS (CN) – In ...

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 ...

This year’s so-called dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is the third smallest ever recorded thanks to Hurricane Hanna, scientists said Tuesday, despite a June prediction that it would be larger than ...

One issue we have read about recently is very elevated methane levels in dissolved sea water, near where the oil and gas mixture are currently escaping in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 40% of ...