Quality of water off Irish coast improves Irish Times By LORNA SIGGINS, Marine Correspondent August 19, 2009WATER QUALITY in Irish coastal areas and estuaries is showing significant improvement, according to a British scientific journal. A report for the Marine Pollution Bulletin by three scientists attached to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that dissolved oxygen [...]

Environmental groups laud EPA setting limits for nutrient runoff polluting Florida waters By MITCH STACY, Associated Press WriterAugust 21, 2009 1:13 p.m.CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Environmental groups on Friday lauded long-awaited action by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set legal limits for farm and urban runoff polluting Florida's waterways, limits that could serve as [...]

USDA Eyeing Targeted Program To Reduce Gulf Of Mexico 'Dead Zone' By Daily NewsFriday, August 21, 2009, InsideEPA.comThe Agriculture Department (USDA) is planning to target funds to encourage farmers in states bordering the Mississippi River to use best management practices to reduce nutrient runoff contributing to the Gulf of Mexico’s so-called dead zone, according to [...]

Toxic Algae Contaminates U.S. Water By ShellyTAug 9th, 2009, A World of Progress, Feature Algae in Big Stone Lake This is a photo I took of Big Stone Lake in Minnesota the last week of July. On the day I arrived at the campground there, the algae was floating in the water, and four days [...]

EPA's "Dead Zone" Strategy Bothers Iowa Farm Groups By Compiled by staff Aug 14, 2009, Wallaces Farmer The "hypoxia zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is significantly smaller this year than scientists predicted it would be, and conservation efforts by farmers upstream in states like Iowa and Illinois are a key reason, say officials with [...]

Blue Legacy - Louisiana: Downstream dead zone By Blue Legacy's Expedition: Blue PlanetSunday, April 26, 2009Wilma Subra, southern Louisiana’s own activist-grandmother extraordinaire, was one of the first people to identify the Dead Zone. A chemist, she’d been conducting tests off of oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico when she noticed a strange dearth of [...]

Entrepreneurs Wade Into the 'Dead Nature Zone' By RUSSELL GOLDAugust 12, 2009, Wall Street JournalEvery spring, fertilizer runoff from the U.S. Mississippi River floods into the Gulf of Mexico, causing a massive algae bloom that leads to a giant oxygen-deprived "dead zone" where fish can't survive. Now, this annual problem is getting new attention, not [...]

Smaller Than Expected, But Severe, Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico By NOAA News ReleasesMon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:01 AM, <Press.Releases@noaa.gov>, tonrabalais@lumcon.eduContact:          Ben Sherman                                      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                         301-713-3066                                      July 27, 2009                                                                                                 EDITOR’S NOTE: Animation of Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone formation can be downloaded from the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory Web site: [...]

U.S. "dead zone" smaller but more severe: NOAA By Timothy GardnerMon Jul 27, 2009 4:51pm EDT, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, an area choked by low oxygen levels that threatens marine life, is smaller than expected this year but more deadly, the government said on Monday. The zone, caused [...]

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 [...]