Hurricane Ike further damages Texas' fragile coastal ecosystem By Randy Lee LoftisSeptember 17, 2008; The Dallas Morning Newshttp://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/greenliving/stories/091708dntexikeeco.19d2dc7.html Hurricane Ike caused massive damage to Texas' coastal ecosystem that could take a generation to heal.  It was a violent dose of nature to a coast already hammered by decades of pollution, population growth and habitat loss. [...]

Tainted waters By Rona CobellSeptember 28,2008; Baltimoresun.comhttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.rivers28sep28,0,1300510.story Despite a generation of efforts to clean up the Chesapeake, development and farming along Maryland's rivers still foul the bay BENEDICT - First of two partsWalter Boynton knows all there is to know about the Patuxent River - how to find its guts and marshes, where it shifts [...]

Ocean "dead zones" spread, fish more at risk: study By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentSeptember 29, 2008; Reuters UKhttp://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKTRE48S8FS20080929 OSLO (Reuters) - The number of polluted "dead zones" in the world's oceans is rising fast and coastal fish stocks are more vulnerable to collapse than previously feared, scientists said on Monday. The spread of "dead zones" [...]

Critics ask why state failed to warn about toxic algae By Perry BeemanSeptember 26, 2008; DesMoinesRegister.comhttp://search.desmoinesregister.com/sp?skin=100&aff=1117&keywords=Critics%20ask%20why%20state%20failed%20to%20warn%20about%20toxic%20algae An outbreak of toxic blue-green algae that threatened the health of Black Hawk Lake swimmers and Des Moines' drinking water 150 miles downstream drew little action from state environmental investigators, critics charged this week.The algae, or cyanobacteria, can cause [...]

World's oceans could become "soupy swill" By Elaine O'ConnorSeptember 13, 2008; The Province, Vancouver, BC http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=4afe0ae4-f3aa-430e-93b3-3d07594802b3B.C. not immune to algae bloom outbreaks Saltspring Island resident Sally Cole got home from a sailing trip in August looking forward to a hot shower. But when she turned on her taps, all she got was slime. "It was [...]

Dead zone now smaller after Gustav By Justin FritscherSeptember 12, 2008; Jackson Gannet.com Hurricane Gustav decreased the size the dead zone, an area of oxygen-depleted water off the Louisiana coast that lacks marine life, a scientist said Friday. But it’s unclear by how much.When a large storm moves through a dead zone, it re-aerates the [...]

Beyond Carbon: Scientists Worry About Nitrogens Effects By Richard MorganSeptember 2, 2008; The New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/science/02nitr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin TOOLIK FIELD STATION, Alaska — As Anne Giblin was lugging four-foot tubes of Arctic lakebed mud from her inflatable raft to her nearby lab this summer, she said, “Mud is a great storyteller.” Dr. Giblin, a senior scientist at [...]

CNN Video on the Louisiana HypoxiaAugust 20, 2008http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/08/21/chernoff.dead.zone.cnn?iref=videosearch

'Dead zones' - coming to a coast near youBaltimoresun.com The 'dead zone' that's making life difficult in Chesapeake Bay for blue crabs, fish and shellfish has plenty of company, it seems. A new study led by a Virginia marine scientist reports a one-third increase worldwide over the last 12 years in the number of such [...]

Coastal Dead Zones Are Growing By Unmesh KherThursday, Aug. 14, 2008; TIME in partnership with CNNThe teal blue area illustrates a dead zoneOver the past two or three decades, scientists have noticed with growing alarm that vast stretches of coastal waters are turning into dead zones — patches of seabed so depleted of oxygen that [...]