Walt Handelsman: Dead Zone
By Walt Handlesman / The Advocate July 17, 2017 Source: http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_493b9c86-6b2c-11e7-94b0-a3e2f289d07f.html
Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ expected to be largest ever; Louisiana to ‘bear the burden’ of its effects
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 [...]
Scientists predict a Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ the size of New Jersey this summer
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 [...]
Tackling “dead zone” long-term job
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 [...]
More Intense Rains in U.S. Midwest Tied to Farm Mechanization
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 [...]
Gulf Dead Zone Makes for Shrimpier Shrimp
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 [...]
Price of Shrimp Impacted by Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone”
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 [...]
A new, massive dead zone found in the Indian Ocean
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 [...]
Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone research
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 [...]
Good News and Bad News on This Year’s Dead Zone Measurement
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 [...]