Our Bay: Chesapeakes dead zone back with a vengeance, Low-oxygen areas also appearing in rivers By Pamela Wood, Capital Gazette 16 July 2011 Pamela Wood — The Capital Pierre Henkart runs a water quality monitoring program for the Severn Riverkeeper Program. On the river this week, he found dangerously low oxygen levels in deep water, [...]
Sick Fish, Fish Kill Reported in Gulf By The Ledger22 July 2011 Mike and Ashlee Hall of Lakeland landed this monster black drum on a large blue crab at the Howard Frankland Bridge in late June. The 42-pounder was 48 inches, one of three they hooked. Dead fish have been washing up on the beaches [...]
It's Time We Take the Pulse of the Gulf By Vikki Spruill, Huffington Post19 July 2011It has been one year since BP's Macondo well was capped, ending the continuous flow of toxic crude into the Gulf of Mexico and allowing all of us to breathe a (very short) sigh of relief before continuing our work [...]
Our Bay: Chesapeake's dead zone back with a vengeance By By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer, HometownAnnapolis.com16 July 2011 Pamela Wood - The Capital Pierre Henkart runs a [...]
Forecasting 'Dead Zone' Conditions in the Gulf By Ira Flatow, NPR Science Friday, interview with Dr. Nancy Rabalais, LUMCON24 June 2011 Copyright © 2011 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. IRA FLATOW, host: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. The Gulf of [...]
Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico getting bigger By WLOX Editorial, WLOX, ABC 13 22 June 2011There was a story reported this week that should be alarming to all of us here along the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists say the dead zone in the Northern Gulf this year will be the largest ever. This is [...]
Bill would give states veto power over clean water rules By James Bruggers, courier-journal.com26 June 2011 Pollution we make here in Kentucky and Indiana washes into the Ohio River, which in turn gets into the Mississippi which in turn gets into the Gulf of Mexico. There, nutrients from what we flush down the toilet, spread [...]
Dead zone dramas come back to life By Len Bahr, PhD*, LACOASTPOST.com17 June 2011 Drs. Rabalais and Turner pictured on a graphic produced from their survey data. Author’s note: This piece involves technical issues about gulf hypoxia and assumes that the reader has a basic understanding of the phenomenon. If you don’t fit this description [...]
Because of climate change, fears of a Great Lakes dead zone By Robin Amer, WBEZ91.524 June 2011 A satellite photo shows the expanding dead zone in Lake Eerie. Some scientists fear the other Great Lakes may suffer a similar fate. (Courtesy of NASA) By end of the century, Illinois will feel like Texas. And Michigan [...]
Flood threat passes; corps assesses response By Matthew Albright, Houma Courier 23 June 2011MORGAN CITY — Levees performed as designed when the swollen Mississippi River threatened, and the worst of the flood threat has passed, the regional leader of the Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday. “The system around the Atchafalaya and the Mississippi performed [...]
