Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" caused by ethanol production By David Gutierrez, staff writer, Natural News.com28 October 2010Ethanol, billed by Congress as a "green fuel," may be responsible for the second-largest dead zone in the world. The foremost cause of aquatic dead zones is fertilizer runoff from agricultural operations, which leads to an explosion of [...]
Don't let dead zone delay coastal work By DAILY WORLD21 October 2010Maybe you look at it this way: A recent bit of news casts doubt on the opinion of some Louisiana observers, including this editorial page, that a newly named federal commission doesn't need a year to develop a strategy for coastal restoration. Scientists have [...]
Did Gulf Spill Boost "Dead Zone"? By National Geographic Daily News25 October 2010(Click here for video) Microbes consuming oil from the Gulf of Mexico's BP spill deplete oxygen levels when they die, raising the threat of an expanded "dead zone," which endangers some marine life. Now scientists are using years of dead-zone data to determine [...]
Barbara Coffin, Larkin McPhee: Documentary was carefully researched By BARBARA COFFIN and LARKIN MCPHEE, The Star Tribune, Minnesota12 October 2010 We appreciated David Mulla's commentary ("'Troubled Waters' tells only part of the water-quality story," Oct. 10) noting that our documentary tells a "powerful story about unintended pollution." However, Mulla was wrong in stating that the [...]
Massive dead zone may be intensified by oil By by Katie Moore / Eyewitness News12 October 2010 NEW ORLEANS -- One of the greatest fears of the BP oil spill was that the oil would cause massive dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico. Right now, just off Louisiana's coast, two dead zones are in [...]
Scientists find dead zone in Chandeleur Sound off Louisiana, Mississippi coast By Chris Kirkham, The Times-Picayune12 October 2010 The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not considered a primary cause of the Chandeleur Sound dead zone, because a similar dead zone was detected in 2008, when there was no spill. These shrimp [...]
Environmental Writer Blames Humans for Dying Oceans By Faiza Elmasry, Voice of America06 October 2010 Huge swathes of the ocean are dying and environmental writer Alanna Mitchell says humans are to blame. Mitchell believes human activity is altering everything about the world's oceans, including their temperature, acidity and the life within them. Most of the [...]
We're Overloading the System with Nitrogen By Quest, Science for South Africa11 Oct 2010 At Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, excess nitrogen promotes algae growth, which leads to eutrophication. Over-nourished by excess nutrients including nitrogen, which drains from nearby farms, swirls of blue-free algae form. The eventual decay of the algae robs the water of oxygen, [...]
YouTube Video on "Navigating Troubled Waters" By UpTakeVideo October 04, 2010 Yesterday the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum of Natural History showed two screenings of "Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story", a documentary which relies on undisputed scientific facts to narrate how fertilizers used by industrial agriculture make their way into the water systems and [...]
Mary Landrieu Goes to Bat for Louisianas Wetlands By Georgianne Nienaber, The Huffington PostSeptember 28, 2010 United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today gave testimony to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling at its open meeting in Washington, DC. Landrieu's testimony focused on the importance of a [...]