Critics ask why state failed to warn about toxic algae By Perry BeemanSeptember 26, 2008; DesMoinesRegister.comhttp://search.desmoinesregister.com/sp?skin=100&aff=1117&keywords=Critics%20ask%20why%20state%20failed%20to%20warn%20about%20toxic%20algae An outbreak of toxic blue-green algae that threatened the health of Black Hawk Lake swimmers and Des Moines' drinking water 150 miles downstream drew little action from state environmental investigators, critics charged this week.The algae, or cyanobacteria, can cause [...]

World's oceans could become "soupy swill" By Elaine O'ConnorSeptember 13, 2008; The Province, Vancouver, BC http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=4afe0ae4-f3aa-430e-93b3-3d07594802b3B.C. not immune to algae bloom outbreaks Saltspring Island resident Sally Cole got home from a sailing trip in August looking forward to a hot shower. But when she turned on her taps, all she got was slime. "It was [...]

Dead zone now smaller after Gustav By Justin FritscherSeptember 12, 2008; Jackson Gannet.com Hurricane Gustav decreased the size the dead zone, an area of oxygen-depleted water off the Louisiana coast that lacks marine life, a scientist said Friday. But it’s unclear by how much.When a large storm moves through a dead zone, it re-aerates the [...]

Beyond Carbon: Scientists Worry About Nitrogens Effects By Richard MorganSeptember 2, 2008; The New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/science/02nitr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin TOOLIK FIELD STATION, Alaska — As Anne Giblin was lugging four-foot tubes of Arctic lakebed mud from her inflatable raft to her nearby lab this summer, she said, “Mud is a great storyteller.” Dr. Giblin, a senior scientist at [...]

CNN Video on the Louisiana HypoxiaAugust 20, 2008http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/08/21/chernoff.dead.zone.cnn?iref=videosearch

'Dead zones' - coming to a coast near youBaltimoresun.com The 'dead zone' that's making life difficult in Chesapeake Bay for blue crabs, fish and shellfish has plenty of company, it seems. A new study led by a Virginia marine scientist reports a one-third increase worldwide over the last 12 years in the number of such [...]

Coastal Dead Zones Are Growing By Unmesh KherThursday, Aug. 14, 2008; TIME in partnership with CNNThe teal blue area illustrates a dead zoneOver the past two or three decades, scientists have noticed with growing alarm that vast stretches of coastal waters are turning into dead zones — patches of seabed so depleted of oxygen that [...]

Scientists alarmed by ocean dead-zone growth By David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor(08-14) 18:03 PDTSAN FRANCISCO -- Dead zones where fish and most marine life can no longer survive are spreading across the continental shelves of the world's oceans at an alarming rate as oxygen vanishes from coastal waters, scientists reported Thursday.The scientists place the problem [...]

By Anne Minard, National Geographic NewsAugust 14, 2008"Dead zones" are on the rise, says a new study that identified stark growth in the number of coastal areas where the water has too little oxygen to sustain marine life. There are now more than 400 known dead zones in coastal waters worldwide, compared to 305 in [...]

Ocean Dead Zones Growing; May Be Linked to Warming By James Owen, National Geographic NewsMay 1, 2008HYypoxic zones—swaths of ocean too oxygen-deprived to support fish and other marine organisms—are rapidly expanding as sea temperatures rise, a new study suggests. Researchers have tracked a decline in dissolved oxygen levels since 1960 in the tropical Pacific and [...]