Forecast: Dead zone off La., Texas coasts to grow By Associated PressAssociated Press; June 10, 2008http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DEAD_ZONE?SITE=CADIU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Researchers predict a "dead zone" of oxygen-depleted waters off the Louisiana and Texas coasts could grow this summer to 10,084 square miles, making it the largest such expanse in at least 23 years. If the [...]

Dead zone off La-Texas coast to grow By 2008 Associated PressHouston Chronicle; June 9, 2008http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5827949.html NEW ORLEANS — An area of oxygen-depleted waters off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas could grow this summer to 10,084 square miles, about as large as the state of Massachusetts, to the greatest expanse mapped. That forecast from scientists [...]

Dead zone in gulf could be largest on record By MSNBC staff and news service reportsMSNBC; June 10, 2008http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25080135/ NEW ORLEANS - Researchers predict a "dead zone" of oxygen-depleted waters off the Louisiana and Texas coasts could grow this summer to 10,084 square miles — making it the largest such expanse on record. If the [...]

Agriculture blamed as Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" grows By Sarah Lohman; St. Louis Post-Dispatchdenverpost.com; June 10, 2008http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_9544787 WASHINGTON — Scientists predicting the biggest-ever "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico are blaming Midwestern corn grown for ethanol for higher levels of pollution escaping down the Mississippi River. "In the past several years, there's been [...]

Scientists say floods could add to 'Dead Zone' By Perry BeemanDesMoinesRegister.com; June 10, 2008http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880610013 Scientists predict the floodwaters decimating the Midwest also will whack the Gulf of Mexico, pushing the so-called Dead Zone to its highest level since full measurements began in 1985.The researchers from Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium forecast [...]

Scientists say Midwestern farms cause large dead zone By Sarah Lohman, McClatchy NewspapersKansas City Star; June 10, 2008http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/658690.html WASHINGTON | Scientists predicting the biggest-ever “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico are blaming Midwestern farms. The corn grown for ethanol creates high levels of pollution that escape down the Mississippi River, they said. “In the [...]

Dead zone in Gulf could be biggest ever recorded Houma Courier; June 11, 2008http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20080611/ARTICLES/806110358http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20080610/HURBLOG/824095386 HOUMA – Louisiana researchers are predicting that this year’s dead zone, the area of low-to-no oxygen that forms annually in the Gulf of Mexico, will be the largest ever recorded. Scientists expect the so-called “dead zone,” which has earned its nickname [...]

PRESS RELEASE: Dead Zone Present and Growing, Record Year Predicted10 June 2008 A team of scientists from Louisiana State University (LSU) and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium is forecasting that the “Dead Zone” off the coast of Louisiana and Texas in July this summer will be the largest since shelfwide measurements began in 1985.  The [...]

Is corn boom expanding Gulf of Mexico's 'dead zone'? By Conrad WilsonStar Tribune, June 2 2008http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/19473599.html?location_refer=Lifestyle Some fear an ethanol-fueled harvest in the Midwest may be behind the hard times for marine life at the other end of the Mississippi River.  WASHINGTON - Last fall, the farm fields of the Midwest yielded record profits and [...]

Dead Zones Grow in the Gulf of Mexico By Kent GarberU.S. News and World Report; June 6, 2008http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/06/06/dead-zones-grow-in-the-gulf-of-mexico.html How U.S. farming policy leads to 'dead zones,' huge marine areas where nothing can grow Each spring, the cycle of death begins anew. Nitrogen and phosphorus, leached from fertilizer, pass from farmland into streams, from streams into [...]