By Steve Hardy / The Advocate July 16, 2017 Four generations of the Olander family have shrimped the coast of Louisiana, but now Thomas Olander, chairman of the Louisiana Shrimp Association, is trying to convince his own son to get out of the family business while he's still young as the Mississippi River spews poison [...]
By Chelsea Harvey / The Washington Post June 21, 2017 An oxygen-poor “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, which can prompt harmful algae blooms and threaten marine life, could approach the size of New Jersey this summer, federal scientists say — making it the third-largest the Gulf has seen. A new forecast from the National [...]
By Lynn Grooms / Agri-View June 1, 2017 On a trip to Louisiana earlier this spring, members of the Iowa County’s Farmer-Led Watershed Protection Group in southwestern Wisconsin learned more about hypoxia – commonly referred to as the “dead zone” – in the Gulf of Mexico. A scientist from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium [...]
By Bas den Hond | EoS April 28, 2017 Replacement of horses by machines since the 1940s allowed central U.S. farmers to change the crops they planted, which may have altered regional climate. A tractor sprays a soybean field. Credit: iStock.com/fotokostic “Rain follows the plow,” or so the pioneers who started farms in [...]
By Christopher Intagliata | Scientific American February 8, 2017 The low-oxygen waters of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico result in smaller shrimp, and a spike in large shrimp prices. Christopher Intagliata reports. Every spring, the Mississippi River dumps tens of thousands of tons of nutrient runoff into the Gulf of Mexico. Add temperature, current [...]
By NOAA January 30, 2017 The low oxygen conditions slow shrimp growth, leading to fewer and more expensive large shrimp A NOAA-funded study led by Duke University has found that the Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” drives up the price of large shrimp relative to small shrimp, creating an economic impact that directly affects consumers, fishermen and [...]
Fishing may become more difficult in the Bay of Bengal. Photo Credit: Sailesh Patnaik CBC Radio December 9, 2016 There are many 'dead zones' in the oceans of the world, including in the waters off the west coasts of North and South America, the west coast of India, and the Arabian Sea. Dead [...]
By Logan Hawkes | Southwest FarmPress November 8, 2016 "Dead Zones" linked to ag fertilizer use Management options studied Perennial buffer crops. Folks have heard a great deal of talk about the risks of algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico in recent years, and more recently extensive research aimed at not only determining why [...]
By Andrea Basche | Union of Concerned Scientists August 1, 2016 For the first time since monitoring began in 1985, there will be no official measurement of the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone. Late last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) made a disappointing announcement: due to mechanical ship problems, this year’s dead zone [...]
By Harvey Rice | Houston Chronicle July 30, 2016 GALVESTON – A mass die-off of coral and other sea animals discovered this week on a reef in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary stunned and saddened scientists who have viewed it as one of the healthiest coral reefs in the world. Russell Jacks [...]