The number of known hypoxic pockets of ocean has dramatically ... Scientists have announced that the Gulf of Mexico's "dead ...

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 ...

The hypoxic area or dead zone is created every year in the Gulf and peaks in ... tons of nitrogen pollutants from Midwest agricultural runoff flowed into the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River, ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm about growing dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. Dead zones are areas of water with hypoxia, or dangerously low levels of oxygen. Dead zones are caused by ...

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 ...