The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium has a goal of shrinking the zone to 1,900 square miles by 2035. A massive lifeless zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico is significantly smaller than ...

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The Gulf “dead zone” off Louisiana’s coast was nearly the size of Connecticut this summer, researchers reported Thursday — even as the Trump administration proposes cuts to some federal funding ...

Despite being called a “cruise,” the people on board The Pelican described the experience on the hypoxia monitoring expedition as very different from the elaborate dinners on a towering vacation ship ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Scientists released findings showing that the Gulf dead zone west of the Mississippi River is around 4,772 square miles. The dead zone is an area of low to no oxygen that can kill ...

WASHINGTON -- Floodwaters loaded with farm runoff are heading down the Mississippi River, and scientists fear the deluge will dramatically increase this summer's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, ...

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 ...

(The Center Square) − The Gulf of America's "dead zone" has shrunk significantly this summer, with scientists measuring a hypoxic area of just over 4,400 square miles — roughly a third smaller than ...

Students Jorddy Gonzalez and Lily Tubbs retrieve the CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) sensor package after measuring dissolved oxygen at a regular stop on the annual hypoxia cruise while ...