New York Times | 22 August 2026 | By K. R. CallawayPhotographs and Video by Bryan TarnowskiReporting from Baton Rouge and Houma, La.In a decades-long crisis, marine life has suffered as oxygen periodically dwindles in waters along the Gulf Coast. On a sweltering night in late July, a team of scientists gathered onboard the R.V. [...]
NOAA | 5 August 2026 NOAA-supported scientists announced today that this year’s Gulf of America hypoxic zone is approximately 1,332 square miles, making it the 2nd smallest zone on record in 40 years of measurement. Hypoxic areas, also called “dead zones,” are areas with little to no oxygen in the water, which can [...]
Katie Walls | Fox4 25 August 2025 You may have heard of the Gulf’s Dead Zone, millions of acres in the northern Gulf waters, where marine life cannot survive. The Dead Zone develops every summer and can be as big as the state of New Jersey. But this summer, scientists have found the [...]
Elise Plunk | La Illuminator 21 Aug 2025 Student Jorddy Gonzalez and Dr. Cassandra Glaspie retrieve the CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) sensor package after measuring dissolved oxygen at a stop on the Gulf hypoxia cruise. (Credit: Cassandra Glaspie) Despite being called a “cruise,” the people on board The Pelican described the experience on the hypoxia monitoring [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
NOAA | 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 [...]
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 [...]
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,” [...]
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 [...]
