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 ...

This year's dead zone far exceeds the 1,900 square-mile goal set by the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force, a collaborative state and federal partnership. Dead zones do not only threaten marine ...

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 ...

Part of a legal description of a boundary line of Dixie County, for instance, says it goes "southerly down the thread of the ...

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 ...

Schools and some businesses were closed and few people walked the streets of a town south of Mexico's capital Tuesday, hours ...