Mark Schleifstein / NOLA.com 16 October 2021 Satellite photos taken six weeks after Hurricane Ida blasted southeast Louisiana show its storm surge, waves and winds devastated a large swath of wetlands in the north central Barataria Basin, gashing a coastal buffer that helps protect 1 million people from flooding. The European Space Agency Sentinel 2 images, captured before [...]

Doyle Rice | USA TODAY 5 August 2021 The annual Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" – a region of oxygen-depleted water off Louisiana and Texas that's harmful to sea life – is larger than average this summer, federal scientists from NOAA announced in a report out Tuesday. The zone this year is about 6,334 square miles, [...]

RT en Español 5 August 2021 The so-called 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico, an area with little or no oxygen that can kill fish and all marine life, is larger than average this year ,  the National Oceanic Administration announced Tuesday. and US Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This phenomenon, which is repeated every year, is mainly caused by [...]

Jessica Meszaros | WUSF Public Media - WUSF 89.7 4 August 2021 This year's hypoxic zone, or "dead zone", in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its partners announced during a virtual press conference Tuesday. It is 6,334 square miles, or nearly 1,000 square miles more than [...]

Warren Cornwall | Science 23 April 2021 In a swamp at the edge of Louisiana's Barataria Bay, plastic-capped GPS antennas sprout like oversize mushrooms from four small wooden platforms. The gear, which helps scientists monitor changes in the surrounding marsh, is easy to miss in this expanse of water and swampland the size of [...]

Deanna Conners / EarthSky 26 August 2020 Thanks to July’s Hurricane Hanna, the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone is much smaller this summer than usual. Researchers say the storm stirred up the area of low-oxygen water. This week’s Tropical Storm Marco and Hurricane Laura – currently causing havoc in the Gulf – are likely further disrupting the Gulf’s 2020 dead [...]

Tyler Sebree / WSFA 12 News 14 August 2020 In a year with a whole bunch going on across the country, many of us are trying to find some positive news. While that may be easier said than done, there is some phenomenal news coming from the Gulf of Mexico this summer! The National Oceanic [...]

Mark Schleifstein / NOLA.com 6 August 2020 Federal climate scientists have upped their forecast for the 2020 hurricane season to “extremely active,” and predict there will be as many as 25 named storms by the end of November. It’s only the third time that forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have tagged [...]

Nina Pullano / Inverse.com 6 August 2020 Annual summer hypoxia points to global trends. GIVEN A CLIMATE'S CURRENT (AND ACCELERATING) STATE, it has become unremarkable to see environmental reports peppered with superlatives: the hottest decade in the books, a record-setting ice melt. What we don't see as frequently are temperate reports like the one National Oceanic and Atmospheric [...]

Mark Schleifstein / NOLA.com 4 August 2020 The 2020 summer low-oxygen "dead zone" along the Louisiana Gulf coastline covered only 2,117 square miles, an area just a bit larger than the state of Rhode Island and the third-smallest dead zone since mapping began in 1985, according to researchers with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium [...]