Smaller-Than-Expected Gulf Dead Zone Is Still Massive By Douglas Main, AccuWeather.com5 August 2013The dead zone that has formed in the Gulf of Mexico this summer is smaller than predicted, but is still larger than average, spanning an area roughly the size of Connecticut. This zone, an area without oxygen and almost completely devoid of life [...]
Why This Year's Gulf Dead Zone Is Twice As Big As Last Year's By Tom Philpott, Mother Jones14 August 2013 Dead Sea scrolls: In the red part, "habitats that would normally be teeming with life become, essentially, biological deserts," NOAA says. NOAA. First, the good news: The annual "dead zone" that smothers much of the northern Gulf [...]
Crowd favors lawsuit to regulate runoff By Joel Aschbrenner, Des Moines Register7 August 2013 Bill Stowe, CEO of Des Moines Water Works, speaks to a crowd of more than 100 at gathered Tuesday to advocate for clean water. / Joel Aschbrenner/The Register The idea of filing a lawsuit seeking federal regulators to establish limits [...]
South Dakotans learn about hypoxia, land losses on Louisiana trip By AmericanNews.com2 August 2013This is a combination of a guest blog from Roslyn farmer and South Dakota Corn Grower member Ryan Wagner following a recent trip to the southern tip of Louisiana Hypoxia by definition is an absence or lack of oxygen, and the Gulf [...]
Dead zone is an annual shame By Editorial, The Courier29 July 2013 Every summer, the Gulf of Mexico researchers who focus on the dead zone spend a lot of time and energy measuring and documenting the phenomenon. This summer, they found another huge area of oxygen-depleted water — 5,840 square miles. For comparison’s sake, that [...]
Gulf's dead zone bigger than Connecticut By Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch29 July 2013 The bad news is that this year's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is bigger than average. Big is relative when it comes to tracking and forecasting the region off Louisiana where dissolved oxygen levels are so low that fish [...]
Gulf dead zone misses forecast, is still bigger than goal size By Perry Beeman, Des Moines Register.com30 July 2013This year’s dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is smaller than expected, but still significantly bigger than a federal task force’s goal. The oxygen-free zone — the result largely of fertilizer runoff from the Midwest — [...]
Large low-oxygen area mapped off coast By Nikki Buskey, Houmatoday.com29 July 2013 A map of this year's dead zone off the coast of Louisiana. The red areas indicate waters with the lowest levels of oxygen. Image provided by LUMCON This year's dead zone, an area of low- to no-oxygen that forms in the Gulf of [...]
NOAA-supported scientists find large Gulf dead zone, but smaller than predicted29 July 2013 NOAA-supported scientists found a large Gulf of Mexico oxygen-free or hypoxic “dead” zone, but not as large as had been predicted. Measuring 5,840 square miles, an area the size of Connecticut, the 2013 Gulf dead zone indicates nutrients from the Mississippi River [...]
Fisheries officials predict below-average shrimp season By Nikki Buskey, Houmatoday.com9 July 2013Federal fisheries officials are predicting a below-average brown shrimp season for the next year in waters off Louisiana and federal waters off Louisiana and Texas. Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issue an annual prediction of brown shrimp catches based on monitoring [...]