A dead zone, or as scientists prefer, a hypoxic zone, is an area in estuaries and coastal waters around the mouth of larger rivers entering the sea where the oxygen content is too low to support most ...

Scientists prepare to collect near-bottom water aboard the R/V Pelican to verify oxygen measurements used to determine the size of the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone. (NOAA/LUMCON/LSU) A "dead zone," or ...

Did you know there's a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico? No, we're not talking about the 1983 sci-fi horror film, or the early 2000s sci-fi TV series. This one is very much real. For decades, ...

A hypoxic zone, an area largely depleted of oxygen, at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has grown to a degree significantly greater than expected. The dead zone, which is now roughly the size of ...

Decades of work haven’t shrunk the oxygen-depleted “dead zone” that forms each year in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana and Texas. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting ...

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 ...

Scientists surveying the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico discovered a “dead-zone” that was “equivalent to more than four million acres of habitat.” Typically, dead zones cover around 5,400 square miles.

URBANA, Ill. -- Despite a 12-year action plan calling for reducing the hypoxia zone in the Gulf of Mexico, little progress has been made, and there is no evidence that nutrient loading to the Gulf has ...

The “dead zone” where the Mississippi River dumps into the Gulf of Mexico — an area of low oxygen that cannot sustain life, fueled by pollution running the length of the river — clocked in at 3,275 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The annual forecast for the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has renamed ...