DAVID PITT | AP News 10 June 2022 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The federal government said Friday that it will distribute $60 million among 12 states that have waterways that flow into the Mississippi River to help them control farm runoff and other pollution that contribute to a dead zone in the Gulf [...]
Mark Schleifstein | NOLA.com 3 June 2022 A gap in the Mississippi River's banks in the waterway's far southern reaches has widened into a full-blown channel, funneling huge amounts of water through it and prompting the Army Corps of Engineers to move to close it. But state officials wonder if it could also be [...]
Mark Schleifstein | NOLA.com 3 June 2021 The 2021 summertime "dead zone" along the Louisiana and Texas coast lines — an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and bottom-living organisms — is predicted to cover 4,880 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico's water bottom, according to NOAA scientists. That's [...]
Mark Schleifstein | NOLA.com 2 June 2022 The Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone" is again expected to be larger than the state of Connecticut this summer, NOAA said Thursday in its prediction of the low-oxygen area where bottom-living organisms will die and fish and shrimp will attempt to avoid. The dead zone, the result of [...]
Anne Readel | New York Times 28 March 2022 As I drove last May through Appleton, Wis., the small city offered up a series of idyllic scenes: children playing on tree-lined streets, couples walking their dogs, and all the while, the wind carrying the sweetness of spring. But something was unusual here. The lawns [...]
Bobby Jordan | Times Live South Africa 1 March 2022 Government assessing extent of the damage Tons of west coast rock lobster has beached itself along the west coast around Elandsbaai and Doringbaai, it emerged on Tuesday. Government officials confirmed the “walkout” but said they would comment only after detailed feedback from fieldworkers. Pictures [...]
Bobby Jordan | Times Live 1 March 2022 Tons of west coast rock lobster has beached itself along the west coast around Elandsbaai and Doringbaai, it emerged on Tuesday. Government officials confirmed the “walkout” but said they would comment only after detailed feedback from fieldworkers. Pictures on social media show coastal residents collecting west [...]
Ignacio Calderon / USA TODAY 1 December 2021 Located in the heart of America’s breadbasket, Champaign County, Illinois, helps feed the nation’s demand for corn and soybeans while fueling one of the more insidious impacts of climate change – fertilizer runoff. Every year, farmers apply tons of nitrogen fertilizer to the vast swaths of [...]
Mark Schleifstein / NOLA.com 16 October 2021 Satellite photos taken six weeks after Hurricane Ida blasted southeast Louisiana show its storm surge, waves and winds devastated a large swath of wetlands in the north central Barataria Basin, gashing a coastal buffer that helps protect 1 million people from flooding. The European Space Agency Sentinel 2 images, captured before [...]
Doyle Rice | USA TODAY 5 August 2021 The annual Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" – a region of oxygen-depleted water off Louisiana and Texas that's harmful to sea life – is larger than average this summer, federal scientists from NOAA announced in a report out Tuesday. The zone this year is about 6,334 square miles, [...]
