Gulf Coast 'dead zone' growing, researchers say By Greg BarrHouston Business Journal, April 2, 2008http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2008/03/31/daily32.html Texas A&M University researchers have confirmed that a still-growing "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico extends along the entire length of the Texas Gulf Coast. A dead zone occurs when there is hypoxia, or oxygen-depleted water. Such low levels [...]
Dead zone plan adrift By Erika EngelhauptEnvironmental Science & Technology Online News Feed; April 2, 2008 http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2008/apr/policy/ee_deadzone.html Critics say the new action plan is not tough enough and won't succeed without federal funding. Last summer, a swath of Gulf of Mexico waters the size of New Jersey was virtually lifeless. For the past 40 years [...]
Inconvenient reality By Samantha BatesThe East Oregonian; April 1, 2008http://www.eastoregonian.info/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=75673#articleguestbookForm#articleguestbookFormBradbury assigns task of slowing down climate changeMonday night, Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury gave a talk to about 30 Eastern Oregonians and, in the end, charged them to make a difference individually when it comes to climate change.He compared the problem of climate change [...]
Dead Zone Off Texas Coast Existed Since 1985Science Daily; April 1, 2008http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080401172339.htm Researchers at Texas A&M University have confirmed for the first time that a "dead zone" has existed off the Texas coast for at least the past 23 years and will likely remain there, causing potential harmful effects to marine life in the area. [...]
Our Views: Muddy water for marshes? By Opinion Page StaffThe Advocate, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mar 16, 2008http://www.2theadvocate.com/opinion/16724681.html Halfway home and getting nowhere. That’s the story of the state and federal officials who pledged themselves in 2001 to reduce the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico that causes massive kills of marine life every year. [...]
Fertilizer Runoff Overwhelms Streams and Rivers--Creating Vast "Dead Zones" By David BielloScientific American online; March 14, 2008http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=fertilizer-runoff-overwhelms-streams The nation's waterways are brimming with excess nitrogen from fertilizer--and plans to boost biofuel production threaten to aggravate an already serious situation FERTILE RUNOFF: Nitrates from fertilizer as well as animal and human waste are carried by streams [...]
Corn ethanol is worsening the Gulf dead zonemongabay.com; March 10, 2008http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0310-ethanol.html Proposed legislation that will expand corn-ethanol production in the United States will worsen the growing "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico and hurt marine fisheries, report researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The dead zone, an expanse [...]
EDITORIAL: Ethanol's tollThe Times Picayune; Friday, March 14, 2008http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1205472218150640.xml&coll=1 Congress wants U.S. production of corn-based ethanol to reach 15 billion gallons by 2022, but that target has dire consequences for another important goal: shrinking the Gulf of Mexico dead zone to a quarter of its size by 2015. The dead zone, which forms off the [...]
More ethanol will expand Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone': reportCBS News, March 10, 2008http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/03/10/science-ethanol.html Ramping up ethanol production for alternative fuels will worsen the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, a stretch of water unable to support aquatic life, according to a report co-written by the University of British Columbia. The U.S. Senate's recently [...]
Report links fuel to dead zone By Chris KirkhamTimes Picayune, March 12, 2008 As the nation's demand for ethanol drives record corn production in the Midwest and increased fertilizer runoff into the Mississippi River, shrinking the annual "dead zone" that forms off Louisiana's coast will be "practically impossible" without major changes, according to a report [...]
