Increased ethanol interest fuels risk of Gulf dead zone spreading By Emilie BahrSeptember 17, 2007; New Orleans City Businesshttp://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=20265 U.S. farmers planted the largest corn crop since 1944 this year after growing demand for corn-based ethanol helped propel corn prices to their highest level in more than a decade. But the expansion of corn production [...]

SERIES OF ARTICLES FROM ABOARD THE PELICAN: Everything you wanted to know about the dead zone, but were afraid to ask By Robert Morris;September 10 - 12, 2007; The Courier, HoumaCourier senior staff writer Robert Morris will be traveling into the Gulf this week with a team of scientists from LUMCON, the Louisiana Universities Marine [...]

Rest of nation shouldnt be 'zoned out By EditorialSeptember 12, 2007; The Courier, Houma The issue: Dead zone.We suggest: No surprises.Shrimpers and crabbers in our area have really begun to feel the effects of the vast dead zone that annually plagues the Gulf of Mexico.Each year, spawned by sewage and farm runoff from the length [...]

Dead zone affects usSeptember 12, 2007; Daily Comet, Thibodaux Shrimpers and crabbers in our area have really begun to feel the effects of the vast dead zone that annually plagues the Gulf of Mexico.Each year, spawned by sewage and farm runoff from the length of the Mississippi River, the dead zone grows in the Gulf.The [...]

Dead zone threatens fisheries By Amy Wold, Advocate Staff WriterSep 10, 2007, The Baton Rouge ADVOCATE GRAND ISLE — The “dead zone” area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico hurts fish, shrimp and all kind of other organisms. This year, it’s directly hurting fishermen, said Dean Blanchard, owner of Dean Blanchard Seafood Inc., [...]

Group targets Gulf dead zone By Amy Wold, Advocate staff writerSep 5, 2007, The Baton Rouge ADVOCATE When liquefied natural gas companies wanted to use water from the Gulf of Mexico in their processing, people got concerned enough about the possible environmental damages that they got organized. This “Gumbo Alliance” included environmental groups, the fishing [...]

Dead zone in Gulf of Mexico continues to increase By Nanci Velez9/4/2007; The Daily Reveille (LSU, Online Edition) The dead zone off the coast of Louisiana has grown to its largest size at 20,500 square kilometers, according to a July 2007 report by Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Dead zones are places in aquatic environments that [...]

Scientists Detect Dead Zone Off Oregon Coast for Sixth Straight Year (Salem-News.com) By Coastal Post OnlineSeptember, 2007  For the full story, please go to: http://www.coastalpost.com/07/09/25.htmlThe OSU researchers say the region has not yet fully recovered from last year's historic hypoxia. (NEWPORT, Ore. ) - A team of Oregon State University scientists monitoring near-shore ocean conditions [...]

Into the Deep Blue By Ali Kriscenski August 23rd, 2007, Daily Tomorrow blogs http://www.dailytomorrow.com/?p=82 I watched two great ocean documentaries this week: The Deep from BBC’s The Blue Planet series and another about the migration of a sea turtle from it’s birth place in Japan across the Pacific and back - didn’t catch the English [...]

More ethanol, more corn, more nitrogen - and bigger dead zone in the gulf By DENNIS KEENEY 08/13/2007; TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press This summer, the USDA announced that U.S. farmers have planted a post-World War II record amount of land with corn to meet the growing demand driven largely by increased ethanol production. A few weeks later, [...]