Threat from oxygen loss in oceans left off table in Paris talks By Renee Lewis for aljazeera.comDecember 11, 2015 Many know about acidification and rising sea levels from climate change; few realize the threat from oceans' oxygen loss While some effects of climate change on the oceans—including acidification and rising sea levels — are well known, its effects on oxygen levels in [...]
The upside-down world of the Gulf's dead zone By Robynne Boyd for mnn.comDecember 10, 2015 Farming runoff turns the sea floor into a wet desert and forces species onward or upward. Stirred up ocean sediment in the Gulf of Mexico. Adding the range of colors in the picture are nutrients like iron from soil and [...]
EPA and Partners Launch the Nutrient Recycling Challenge By Nancy RabalaisNovember 17, 2015 EPA has partnered with pork and dairy producers, USDA, and environmental and scientific experts to launch the Nutrient Recycling Challenge—a competition to develop affordable technologies that recycle nutrients from livestock manure. This is an opportunity to encourage those in your states and agencies [...]
News Release: USDA invests $30 million to improve water quality in Mississippi River Basin By Press Release - see contact information in article belowNovember 6, 2015 73 projects will help farmers, ranchers target conservation in high-priority watersheds Contact: Sarah Haymaker 202-205-9064 WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA’s Natural Resources [...]
'Dead Zone' researcher asked to step down as marine lab director By By Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune November 2, 2015 Nancy Rabalais, the marine ecologist whose research has outlined the devastating effects of the annual low-oxygen "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, has been asked to step down after 10 years as executive [...]
$1.9 Million Available in Cooperative Agreement for Coastal Research Program By MYRA TUGADE - Targeted News ServiceOctober 27, 2015WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced that it expects to award up to 13 cooperative agreements for the Northern Gulf of Mexico Ecosystems and Hypoxia Assessment Program and Coastal Hypoxia Research Program. The estimated [...]
Were totally mismanaging the Mississippi River basin and its costing us By Ryan Schuessler (Washington Post)October 16, 2015 LaGrange, Mo., suffered flooding on April 20, 2013, when the Mississippi River was at or near crest at several places between the Quad Cities and near St. Louis. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Public Safety) In a first-of-its-kind [...]
'Report Card' Gives Mississippi River Basin a D+ By Jim Salter, Associated PressOctober 14, 2015A report card is out on the Mississippi River basin, and the grade is not good: a D+, with an aging transportation infrastructure topping the list of concerns. The report by America's Watershed Initiative, released Wednesday in St. Louis, assesses categories [...]
Mississippi River Basin Earns D+ From Americas Watershed Initiative By CBS LocalOctober 14, 2015 ST. LOUIS (AP) A report card is out on the Mississippi River basin, and the grade is not good: a D+, with the rivers aging transportation infrastructure topping the list of concerns. Americas Watershed Initiative on Wednesday released details of its [...]
Dolphins Aid with Gulf Conservation By Nick Janzen, wrkf.orgOctober 9, 2015 Two dolphins swim off the coast of Grand Isle in the Gulf of Mexico. JUDY PALERMO | THE INDIANAPOLIS ZOO The Dead Zone. It sounds ominous, mysterious. "So its a phenomenon that, to my understanding, didnt even really exist before the 1970s, but is [...]