Dead zone in Gulf smaller but still 3,000 square miles By ERIC STAATS July 27, 2009, Naples NewsNAPLES — Nancy Rabalais didn’t need any fancy testing equipment to know something was wrong in the waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Researchers mapped a 3,000-square-mile dead zone off the Louisiana coast last week, smaller than [...]

Gulfs dead zone smaller, more severe By AMY WOLD, The Advocate staff writer Jul 28, 2009 - Page: 8A The smaller than expected “dead zone” this summer does not mean the problem of seasonal low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is solved, speakers during a telephone conference said Monday. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [...]

Text from Video By Scott SmullenMon 27 Jul 2009 06:27 PM EDT, WVUE, Fox 8 News at 5, New Orleans, LAEst. Audience: 58,365 Est. Publicity Value: $612 (30 sec) the so-called "dead zone" in the gulf gets some high powered attention. from jane lubchenco-- the new administator of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. the [...]

Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Is Smaller Than Expected (Update2) By Brian K. SullivanJuly 27 , BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WIREThe so-called dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, where oxygen levels drop too low to support most life near the ocean’s bottom, is smaller this year than expected, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration <http://www.noaa.gov/> said [...]

Gulf of Mexico dead zone shrinks By Kate Spinner, Sarasota Herald Tribune, kate.spinner@heraldtribune.comMonday, July 27, 2009 at 2:45 p.m.The vast oxygen-starved dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico shrunk by about half its typical size this year, but scientists are not celebrating. The dead zone covered about 3,000 square miles of sea floor this [...]

Good news from the Gulf By Thibodaux Daily Comet Monday, July 27, 2009 at 11:01 a.m.Just a few weeks ago, the news about the Gulf of Mexico’s annual dead zone was grim. Researchers were predicting that the area of low oxygen and little life would be one of the largest ever. In fact, experts had [...]

Is The Gulf's Dead Zone Shrinking? Not Really. By Bradford PlumerMonday, July 27, 2009 4:42 PM , The New RepublicThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just unveiled <http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090727_deadzone.html> this year's estimate of the vast region in the Gulf where no aquatic life can survive, clocking in at some 6,000 square miles. The dead zone, which [...]

Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Shrinks By Christie NicholsonJuly 27, 2009 , Scientific American[/Below is the original script. But a few changes may have been made during the recording of this audio podcast./] *The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium reports that the dead zone in the Gulf is much smaller this year than expected. Christie Nicholson [...]

Bay 'dead zone' bigger than predicted By Tim Wheeler, Baltimore SunJuly 28, 2009The fish-stressing "dead zone" in the Chesapeake Bay is bigger than predicted this summer, scientists say. Just about a month ago, University of Michigan scientists had forecast that the amount of oxygen-starved water in the Chesapeake should be much lower than average for the troubled estuary.  [...]

Climate Change and the Scary Jellyfish Scourge By Andrew Freedman, Washington PostAugust 3, 2009 This summer has seen its share of odd climate change-related science stories. A running theme has been changes in the size and abundance of species as a result of human activities. For example, in June it was reported that jellyfish are [...]