Global Warming Did It! Well, Maybe Not. By Joel Achenbach, The WASHINGTON POSTSunday, August 3, 2008; Page B01 We're heading into the heart of hurricane season, and any day now, a storm will barrel toward the United States, inspiring all the TV weather reporters to find a beach where they can lash themselves to a [...]
Federal and state agencies must find ways to control fertilizer runoff feeding Gulf of Mexico's dead zone.Aug. 4, 2008, 11:01PMAs Tropical Storm Eduard moves toward the Upper Texas coast, it is providing a little-noticed service. In churning the normally languid summertime coastal waters, it is curbing the spread of an 8,000-square-mile dead zone.The zone, first [...]
Join fight against dead zones By THE DAILY ADVERTISER, LAFAYETTE, LAAUGUST 3, 2008Louisiana has new allies in its fight against recurring dead zones in the Gulf. Environmental groups in nine states have petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to establish and enforce pollution standards in the Mississippi River basin and the Gulf of Mexico.The petition [...]
EDITORIAL: Death in the Gulf of Mexico By New York TimesAugust 4, 2008Every year for the past couple of decades, scientists have tried to estimate the size of the dead zone that forms where the Mississippi River enters the Gulf of Mexico. Some years it is several times as large as Lake Pontchartrain. Last year [...]
Floods strip soil from Midwest fields--Environmentalists, farmers at odds By DEANNA MARTIN ASSOCIATED PRESSJULY 28, 2008Jim Lankford stood in his field of corn that was damaged by the June flooding in Martinsville, Ind. In some places on his farm, silt is piled up like sand dunes and uprooted trees still litter cornfields more than [...]
Groups seek limits on Mississippi River pollution By MICHAEL J. CRUMB, Associated Press WriterThu, Jul. 31, 2008Environmental groups in nine states have petitioned the federal government to set and enforce pollution standards in the Mississippi River basin and the Gulf of Mexico. The petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency followed Monday's announcement that the [...]
A 'Dead Zone' in The Gulf of Mexico--Scientists Say Area That Cannot Support Some Marine Life Is Near Record Size By Joel Achenbach, Washington Post Staff WriterThursday, July 31, 2008; A02The "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, an area on the seabed with too little oxygen to support fish, shrimp, crabs and other forms [...]
Dead zone second-largest on record By RYAN S. CLARK, BEAUMONT ENTERPRISEJuly, 29, 2008Effects from Hurricane Dolly led to this summer's dead zone becoming the second-largest one on record, a scientist said today.The dead zone is 8,000 square miles, which is the size of Massachusetts, said scientist Nancy Rabalais, who is the executive professor of the [...]
`Dead zone' not a record, ties for No. 2 By AMY WOLD, Advocate staff writer Jul 29, 2008Louisiana isn't a record-breaker, but it does rival some of the largest low-oxygen areas measured in the Gulf of Mexico.Nancy Rabalais, executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Cocodrie, recently completed her yearly survey of the [...]
Dead zone is not a record setter thanks to hurricane By NIKKI BUSKEY,Staff Writer HOUMA COURIERTuesday, July 29, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. HOUMA -- This year’s dead zone -- the area of low-to-no oxygen that settles off Louisiana’s coast every summer -- was smaller than expected because Hurricane Dolly churned the Gulf’s waters and curbed [...]
