Floods may yield record Gulf 'dead zone' By PERRY BEEMANJune 26, 2008Scientists predict floodwaters that decimated river cities in the Midwest also will whack the Gulf of Mexico, pushing the so-called dead zone to a record size. Researchers from Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium forecast the dead zone - an area [...]

Editorial: Now is the time to stop the dead zone By Houma Daily CourierWednesday, June 25, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. The issue: Gulf of Mexico dead zone.We suggest: Upstream solution needed.The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to grow to an unprecedented size this year because of all the flooding in the [...]

Iowa Flooding Could Be An Act of Man, Experts Say By WashingtonPost.com; Joel AchenbachThursday, June 19, 2008Flooding Overwhelms The MidwestResidents along the Mississippi River are experiencing the worst flooding in 15 years.As the Cedar River rose higher and higher, and as he stacked sandbags along the levee protecting downtown Cedar Falls, Kamyar Enshayan, a college [...]

Dead Zone at its largest, set to grow Increased ethanol production hurting Gulf By Scott Holley 6/24/08National Geographic called it a threat to the Gulf of Mexico's $6 billion seafood industry. Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium said it is the size of Massachusetts and growing. It is the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico. The [...]

U.S. May Free Up More Land for Corn Crops By Dan Gill for The New York TimesJune 21, 2008CHICAGO - Signs are growing that the government may allow farmers to plant crops on millions of acres of conservation land, while a chorus of voices is also pleading with Washington to cut requirements for ethanol production.Kirk [...]

This year's dead zone could be largest ever recorded By WAFB Channel 9June 18, 2008 05:33 PM CDT NEW ORLEANS, LA (WAFB) - This year's dead zone, an area that has little marine life because of a lack of oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico, could become the largest one ever recorded. A growing dead [...]

Times-Picayune EDITORIAL: Dead zone dead endMonday, June 23, 2008 Scientists expect to see the largest-ever dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this summer -- 10,000 square miles -- because spring flooding has sent more nutrient pollution than usual down the Mississippi River. But even though the dead zone is breaking records, there's no corresponding [...]

2008 Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Could Be Largest EverNEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, June 18, 2008As a record-breaking volume of floodwater laden with sewage and fertilizers rolls down the waterways of the Mississippi Basin towards the Gulf of Mexico, a joint federal-state task force released an updated action plan to reduce low oxygen levels that cause [...]

Dead zone threatens Miss., too Oxygen-poor water off La. may spread this way, killing marine life By JUSTIN FRITSCHERJACKSON.GANNETT.COM; JUNE 23, 2008A big problem in Louisiana may be drifting into Mississippi waters. It's invisible, and Mississippi coastal experts say they may not have the manpower to detect it.The dead zone, an area of oxygen-depleted water [...]

Some coastal woes begin far inland By Moises Velasquez-Manoff | Staff Writer of The Christian Science MonitorJune 24, 2008In the early 1970s, Earl "Rusty" Butz, the US secretary of Agriculture, urged American farmers to plant crops "fencerow to fencerow." "Get big or get out," he told them. Farm subsidies followed and, as many small farms [...]