Federal judge orders EPA to determine 'necessity' of regulating nutrients entering Mississippi River By Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com/ The Times-Picayune23 September 2013 A federal judge in New Orleans has handed environmental groups what amounts to half a loaf in their push for federal regulations on the flow of pollutants into the Mississippi River that fuels the [...]
Environmentalists win round against Gulf dead zone By The Associated Press23 September 2013NEW ORLEANS -- Environmental advocates in states along the Mississippi River have won a round toward a long-term goal of having federal standards created to regulate farmland runoff and other pollution blamed for the oxygen-depleted "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. A [...]
Environmentalists win dead zone round against EPA By Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press23 September 2013NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Environmental advocates in states along the Mississippi River have won a round toward a long-term goal of having federal standards created to regulate farmland runoff and other pollution blamed for the oxygen-depleted "dead zone" in the Gulf of [...]
A Deathly Sea (part 2) By Aidan Flax-Clark, Lapham's Quarterly23 September 2013 As the Sea issue comes to a close, Aidan Flax-Clark turns the podcast's attention toward the scientists and experts who can give us the score on the health of our oceans today. In part two,Captain Charles Moore, Nancy Rabalais,Callum Roberts, Jeremy Jackson, Donovan Hohn, Alan Sielen, and Curtis Ebbesmeyer, take [...]
Coastal Command By Megan Scudellari, The Scientist1 September 2013In 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped parts of the roof off the research building of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), situated 85 miles southwest of New Orleans in the heart of Mississippi River Delta wetlands. One month later, Hurricane Rita poured water into the facility, causing major [...]
Real-Time Monitoring Pays Off for Tracking Nitrate Pulse in Mississippi River Basin to the Gulf of Mexico By sciencedaily.com22 August 2013 This graph shows the pulsing of the nitrate concentration of the Misssissippi River at Baton Rouge, LA, along with the streamflow at the same point, from November 2011 to August 2013. Excessive springtime nitrate [...]
Scientists find sizable dead zone, but its smaller than they predicted By Eric Berger, The Houston Chronicle29 July 2013There’s a large dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this summer, but not one nearly so large as scientists predicted about six weeks ago. Back in June federally funded scientists predicted a dead zone that would cover between 7,286 [...]
Above-average low-oxygen Dead Zone covers 5,840 miles along Louisiana coast By Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com; The Times-Picayune29 July 2013 Researchers found an above-average 5,840 square mile area with oxygen levels below 2 parts per million along Louisiana's coast, well above the 2,889 square miles measured in 2012, and above the five-year average.(Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium; Louisiana [...]
Gulfs dead zone is smaller than predicted, but still a large problem By Amy Would, The Advocate31 July 2013 Measurements and scientific research aside, mud-dwelling crabs and eels swimming at the water’s surface in an attempt to get air was a good indication there are oxygen problems down below in the Gulf of Mexico. That’s [...]
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 [...]
