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

The 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 ...

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 ...

That means that anything that goes into those rivers ends up down the Mississippi and ultimately into the Gulf ... a zone at the mouth of the Mississippi that is starved of oxygen. This "dead ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While some advocates hailed Biden's ban on offshore drilling, announced Monday, critics point out a big omission: the western ...

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 ...