Again, it's time to kill the dead zone By Houma Courier, OpinionDecember 15, 2008http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20081215/OPINION/812159969/1030?Title=Again__it_s_time_to_kill_the_dead_zone In June, we urged federal environmental agencies to take immediate action to stop the pollution that travels down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, depriving thousands of miles of water along Louisiana’s coast of the oxygen needed to support [...]
New Initiative Focuses on Water Quality Improvement in the Mississippi River Basin and Gulf of MexicoDecember 8, 2008; St. Louis; PRNewswire-FirstCallhttp://monsanto.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=668 - Monsanto Company launches new effort to help reduce nutrients and sediments in agricultural runoff by partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Iowa Soybean Association, Delta Wildlife and The National Audubon Society on conservation projects [...]
Monsanto gift to finance farm river pollution study By Philip BrasherDecember 9, 2008; Des Moines Registerhttp://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008812090358 Washington, D.C. - Monsanto Co. is giving about $5 million to the Iowa Soybean Association and several conservation groups to study methods of preventing farm runoff from polluting the Mississippi River.Some of the work will target the watersheds of [...]
Inside The World's Superdumps By William Pentland12-02-2008, Forbes.comhttp://www.forbes.com/logistics/2008/12/02/garbage-waste-landfills-biz-logistics-cx_wp_1202dumps.html From toxic trash in China to mountain-sized landfills in Michigan, the world is awash in waste. FORBES.com And this is the magazine that wrote Nancy Rabalais and Gene Turner up for being the “darlings of the environmental community” for their Blasker award in 1991. Waste Management [...]
Marine dead zones set to expand rapidly By Quirin Schiermeiernaturenews.com; 14 November 2008http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081114/full/news.2008.1230.html Rising levels of carbon dioxide could increase the volume of oxygen-depleted 'dead zones' in tropical oceans by as much as 50% before the end of the century — with dire consequences for the health of ecosystems in some of the world's most [...]
Last chance for the oceans? By John VidalThe Guardian Weekly; November 12th, 2008Marine protection zones may be the only answer as climate change and factory fishing turn the world's seas into dead zones. It was summer 2002 when fishermen between the towns of Florence and Lincoln on the north-west Pacific coast of the US began [...]
Hypoxia: Fact or Fiction? By Larry Stalcup,Oct 1, 2008; Corn & Soybean Digesthttp://cornandsoybeandigest.com/ag-issues/1015_hypoxia_fact_fiction/index1.html You are being blamed for the hypoxia dead zone, even though nitrogen (N) use has not increased since 1980. The dead zone, which is said to be draining the life out of more than 8,000 sq. mi. of the Louisiana and Texas [...]
New By infoZine StaffOctober 26, 2008http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/31457/ Sunday, October 26, 2008 :: infoZine Staff Clean Water Act Enforcement A Key To Mitigating Pollution in Mississippi River Basin Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Wetlands and streams in the Mississippi River Basin are at increased risk of pollution and destruction, according to a new report released today [...]
ETHANOL: Producers' financial health going 'from bad to worse' By Allison WinterOctober 24, 2008; Greenwire, E&E Publishing http://www.eenews.net/gw/ U.S. ethanol companies are struggling financially, with their stock prices nosediving, cash reserves dwindling and bad bets on pricey corn contracts coming due as fuel prices decline. "When you look at it from a firm-specific standpoint then [...]
Coastal Dead Zones May Benefit Some Species, Scientist FindsOctober 14, 2008; Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081014134025.htmCoastal dead zones, an increasing concern to ecologists, the fishing industry and the public, may not be as devoid of life after all. A Brown scientist has found that dead zones do indeed support marine life, and that at least one commercially valuable [...]