The Advocate Faimon A. Roberts III / The Advocate 31 Jul 2018 Though it's still about the size of Delaware, the so-called "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is much smaller than researchers were expecting this year. Scientists with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, or LUMCON, reported Tuesday that the 2018 [...]
NOAA News July 31, 2018 Persistently strong westerly winds and waves likely led to smaller than expected zone size NOAA-supported scientists have determined that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone”— an area of low oxygen that can kill fish and marine life — is approximately 2,720 square miles (7,040 square kilometers), an area [...]
An aerial view of the Archipelago Sea, a coastal region of the Baltic. Beneath these seemingly pristine waters lies a coastal ecosystem in crisis due to low oxygen levels. Credit: Kari Mattila, Archipelago Research Institute Jenessa Duncombe / Eos 30 July 2018 Newly drilled cores from the Baltic Sea reveal 1,500 years [...]
The 2018 shelf-wide cruise to determine the extent of low oxygen bottom waters on the Louisiana-Texas continental shelf is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Wesley J. Tunnell, Jr. who passed away on Saturday, July 14, 2018, after a long successful and not successful battle with cancer. Wes was a founding member of the [...]
Loris Lora Paul Greenberg / New York Times 19 July 2018 In 1953, not long before President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in office, the social scientist Leland Allbaugh published “Crete: A Case Study of an Underdeveloped Area.” The landmark analysis of the eating patterns of an isolated Greek population strongly [...]
USDA News Release July 19, 2018 WASHINGTON, July 19, 2018 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced plans to extend two of its landmark water quality initiatives for five years. The Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI) and the National Water Quality Initiative (NWQI) have played a pivotal role in accelerating [...]
Doug Daigle, a research associate of Louisiana State University’s Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences and coordinator of the Louisiana Hypoxia Working Group (far right), takes notes today during a meeting on the Nicholls State University campus. [Abby Tabor/Staff -- dailycomet/houmatoday] Scott McLendon / Houma Today July 19, 2018 A forum focused on [...]
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Iowa's contribution to Mississippi River basin nitrate levels. (Photo: Lyndsey Nielsen/USA Today Network) Register Editorial Board / Des Moines Register June 28, 2018 Iowa Natural Resources Trust offers best solution to reduce farm runoff that is poisoning the Gulf. If it weren’t for Iowa, the Gulf of Mexico would have less fish-killing [...]
A diver observes filamentous algae, locally known as thanatos, at La Ciotat in the Mediterranean sea, on July 4, 2015. Recent global warming has caused a major algal bloom on the seabed, suffocating flora and causing important biodiversity changes.Boris Horvat / AFP / Getty Images Dahr Jamail / Truthout June 25, 2018 [...]
