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 [...]

Beneficial effects of Ike on dead zone dwindling By Amy WoldOctober 8, 2008; 2theadvocate.comhttp://www.2theadvocate.com/news/30608169.html?index=1&c=ySometimes, hurricanes can do good. Hurricanes that roll through the Gulf of Mexico can raise oxygen levels in the “dead zone,” even if only temporarily helping the oxygen-starved areas.But as soon as the waters calm down, the oxygen levels go down, said [...]

Human culture creating water's dead zones By Jack Mahoney10/01/2008; Kennebec Journal; Maine It is estimated that 70 percent of the earth's surface is covered by water. Algae grow in both fresh and salt water. They are basic to the food chain of living organisms. They release vast amounts of oxygen through photosynthesis, which is necessary [...]