Chemicals in Farm Runoff Rattle States on the Mississippi By By Leslie Kaufman, NY Times2 June 2011 Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, right, with Gordon Wassenaar during a visit to his farm in Prairie City, Iowa. As the surging waters of the Mississippi [...]
Female Fish Develop "Testes" in Gulf Dead Zone By Ker Than for National Geographic News31 May 2011 The Atlantic croaker (seen in a file picture) is a common Gulf fish. Photograph courtesy NOAA This story is part of a special National Geographic News series about global water issues. A low-oxygen "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico [...]
Summers Killing Combination: Sewage Treatment And Long Island Sound By Christine Woodside, Waterford Patch28 May 2011 Credit: Long Island Sound Study It is a killing combination: Connecticut’s developed coast bumps up against Long Island Sound, a quiet body of water with few exit points to the open ocean. Each summer, a dead zone forms at [...]
Gadget aims to breathe life into Baltimore's harbor dead zone By By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun 26 May 2011 Panels on the SolarBee device in the harbor have wire guards to keep birds away. (Jed Kirschbaum, Baltimore Sun / May 26, 2011) Something new is floating in the Inner Harbor. Not litter this [...]
How industrial agriculture makes us vulnerable to climate change, Mississippi floods edition By Tom Philpott, grist23 May 2011 8:34 PM An "ephemeral gulley" that carried soil and agrichemicals from an Iowa farm toward the Gulf of Mexico during a 2010 storm. Photo: Environmental Working Group Nancy Rabalais, marine scientist and executive director of the Louisiana [...]
MISSISSIPPI FLOOD: Largest-ever dead zone 'a disaster in the making' for La. fishermen By Paul Quinlan, E&E reporter, GREENWIRE26 May 2011Louisiana's shrimpers expected 2010 to be a good year. Instead, they got the oil spill. Although many found temporary jobs working cleanup for BP PLC, hopes for recovery turned to 2011. Now the swollen Mississippi [...]
Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' may reach record size this summer By Russel McLendon, Mother Nature Network25 May 2011 Image: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The Gulf of Mexico's annual "dead zone" will likely grow to an unprecedented size this summer, a leading expert tells MNN. The lifeless expanse of oxygen-starved seawater is [...]
Farm Runoff in Mississippi River Floodwater Fuels Dead Zone in Gulf By JENNY MARDER, PBS News Hour18 May 2011 A dead zone -- already the size of the state of New Jersey -- is growing in the Gulf of Mexico, fueled by nutrient runoff from the swollen Mississippi River. This year, with floodwaters from the [...]
Flood Water Plus Fertilizer Runoff Creates a Dead Zone the Size of New Jersey By BEN JERVEY, Good20 May 2011 Natural processes used to occasionally create a "dead zone" of oxygen-poor water grows in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It would happen when nutrients from upstream got washed out to sea, feeding phytoplankton [...]
Does a Monster Flood Have to Fuel a Monster Dead Zone Too? By Julia Whitty, Mother Jones13 May 2011 Sediment-laden water pours into the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers. Credit: Norman Kuring, Ocean Color Team. As you can see from the image above, a lot more than water comes down a [...]