‘Report Card’ Gives Mississippi River Basin a D+

'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 [...]

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Mississippi River Basin Earns D+ From Americas Watershed Initiative

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 [...]

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Dolphins Aid with Gulf Conservation

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 [...]

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It’s Something in the Water: Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Bigger than Usual and Pressure Builds to Do Something About It

It's Something in the Water: Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Bigger than Usual and Pressure Builds to Do Something About It By Tulane WaterWays Staff - the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and PolicyAugust 7, 2015Beaujolais Nouveau, swallows to Capistrano, and a massive hypoxic “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico. There things we [...]

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Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Largest Since 2002

Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Largest Since 2002 By JoAnna Wendel, Staff Writer, EOSAugust 6, 2015Downpours in June drove nutrients into the Mississippi River that ultimately deprived a much larger portion of the Gulf of oxygen than had been expected.     Springtime river discharges into the northern Gulf of Mexico carry sediment-laden water, resembling creamy [...]

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2015 Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than Connecticut, Rhode Island combined

2015 Gulf 'dead zone' larger than Connecticut, Rhode Island combined By Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.comAugust 4, 2015 The 2015 "dead zone," an area of low oxygen along the Louisiana Gulf Coast, was larger than the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island, combined. (Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium) The 2015 "dead zone," an area of dangerously low-oxygen water in the Gulf [...]

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Dead zone off Louisiana coast slightly larger than last summer, but triple the size of the target set by a task force

Dead zone off Louisiana coast slightly larger than last summer, but triple the size of the target set by a task force By Amy Wold - Baton Rouge AdvocateAugust 5, 2015Water containing so little dissolved oxygen that it can’t support marine life was found in an area stretching 6,474 square miles off the coast of [...]

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Forecasting dead zones and toxic algae in US waterways: a bad year for Lake Erie

Forecasting dead zones and toxic algae in US waterways: a bad year for Lake Erie By Donald Scavia Graham, Family Professor of Sustainability at University of MichiganJuly 14, 2015 Algae overload: Lake Erie algal bloom 2011. NOAA/NASA Over the past two decades, scientists have developed ways to predict how ecosystems will react to changing environmental conditions. [...]

2017-01-17T09:21:54+00:00July 27th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Forecasting dead zones and toxic algae in US waterways: a bad year for Lake Erie

Tulane officially opens million dead zones challenge

Tulane officially opens $1 million dead zones challenge By Mike Strecker, Tulane UniversityJune 29, 2015 Tulane University has announced the next phase of an international competition that will award $1 million to the entrepreneur, researcher or inventor with the best plan to reduce the amount of crop fertilizer entering the world’s lakes and oceans through storm water runoff. [...]

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Gulf of Mexico dead zone forecast to be average size this year, but still much larger than this years goal

Gulf of Mexico dead zone forecast to be average size this year, but still much larger than this years goal By Amy Wold, The AdvocateJune 19, 2015Using the amount of water flowing in the Mississippi River and the amount of nitrogen in that water, scientists are forecasting an average-sized “dead zone” in the Gulf of [...]

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