Gulf Dead Zone for 2025 Announced Statement from Matt Rota, Senior Policy Director for Healthy Gulf

Matt Rota | Heathy Gulf 1 August 2025 New Orleans, LA–Today, the official size of the 2025 Gulf Dead Zone was announced by NOAA-supported scientists. This year’s dead zone measured approximately 4,402 square miles, almost the size of Connecticut. While this is not the largest Dead Zone we have seen, it is approximately over [...]

Gulf Dead Zone for 2025 Announced Statement from Matt Rota, Senior Policy Director for Healthy Gulf2025-08-04T19:17:09+00:00

Gulf ‘dead zone’ nearly size of Connecticut this summer

MIKE SMITH | Nola.com 31 Jul 2025 LUMCON’s research vessel Pelican docked before a cruise. Scientists take the ship out annually to measure the size of the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo courtesy of Cassandra Glaspie) The Gulf “dead zone” off Louisiana’s coast was nearly the size of Connecticut this summer, [...]

Gulf ‘dead zone’ nearly size of Connecticut this summer2025-08-01T21:13:56+00:00

Gulf of America ‘dead zone’ below average, scientists find

31 July 2025 NOAA-supported scientists announced today that this year’s Gulf of America “dead zone” — an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life — is approximately 4,402 square miles, 21% smaller than estimates from early June and the 15th smallest measurement on record. This equates to [...]

Gulf of America ‘dead zone’ below average, scientists find2025-08-01T18:06:59+00:00

NOAA forecasts an average summer ‘dead zone’ in Gulf of America

11 June 2025 Low-oxygen conditions expected to impact 5,574-square-mile area Lane Simmons of the U.S. Geological Survey collects a water-quality sample at the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge, Louisiana (USGS 07374000). Credit: Scott Dennis, USGS. NOAA is forecasting this summer’s Gulf of America (formerly Gulf of Mexico) “dead zone” to be average-sized, covering approximately [...]

NOAA forecasts an average summer ‘dead zone’ in Gulf of America2025-08-01T19:35:46+00:00

Dead zone off the Alabama coast larger than Rhode Island this year

Margaret Kates | AL.com 21 August 2024 Patric Garmeson, a charter fishing captain, remembers “hundreds if not thousands” of dead bull redfish washed up in Bon Secour Bay in the spring of 2022. “When you set up a fishing trip, and then you realize that you’re in a dead zone, it can affect morale,” [...]

Dead zone off the Alabama coast larger than Rhode Island this year2025-08-01T16:48:18+00:00

A ‘dead zone’ about the size of New Jersey lurks in the Gulf of Mexico

Doyle Rice | USA TODAY 1 August 2024 For decades, an oxygen-depleted "dead zone" that is harmful to sea life has appeared in the Gulf of Mexico in a region off Louisiana and Texas. This year, it's larger than average, federal scientists announced in a report out Thursday. The 2024 zone is about 6,705 [...]

A ‘dead zone’ about the size of New Jersey lurks in the Gulf of Mexico2025-02-13T00:05:28+00:00

Gulf ‘dead zone’ is larger than average this year, the size of New Jersey

Delaney Dryfoos | WWNO 2 August 2024 This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles, as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment [...]

Gulf ‘dead zone’ is larger than average this year, the size of New Jersey2025-02-12T23:55:03+00:00

2024 ‘Dead Zone’ in Gulf of Mexico almost 40 times the size of New Orleans

Mark Schleifstein | NOLA.com 1 August 2024 The annual “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico along Louisiana’s coast – an area where low to no oxygen in the deepest water can kill fish and other marine life – covered 6,705 square miles this summer, the 12th largest measured during 38 years of annual cruises, federal [...]

2024 ‘Dead Zone’ in Gulf of Mexico almost 40 times the size of New Orleans2024-08-02T01:57:08+00:00

‘Dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico predicted to be bigger than average this summer

Eva Tesfaye | WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio 13 June 2024 The “dead zone” forms in the Gulf of Mexico every summer. It’s caused by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, largely from farm fertilizer and municipal runoff, which are carried down the Mississippi River and into the gulf. Algae feeds on those [...]

‘Dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico predicted to be bigger than average this summer2024-06-17T20:38:15+00:00

Will the dead zone off Louisiana’s coast drastically shrink this year? There’s good news and bad news.

MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN | NOLA.com  13 June 2024 New data has emerged showing that the low-oxygen “dead zone” that forms along Louisiana's coast each summer could shrink dramatically this year -- but the reason may have to do with global warming and there are conflicting findings on the question. A forecast released this week by LSU scientists [...]

Will the dead zone off Louisiana’s coast drastically shrink this year? There’s good news and bad news.2024-06-17T20:38:53+00:00
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