The Dead Zone: The Deepwater Horizon oil spill versus the dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico - which is worse? By By Nathaniel E. Ostrom, PRAIRIE FIRE NEWSSeptember 2010 A few weeks ago I received an e-mail message from Gabriella Belmarez, a high school student at Lamar Academy in McAllen, Texas, that inspired [...]
Dead zones a coastal threat By BY MIKE LEE, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 Earnie Grafton A dead zone in San Diego Bay is part of a new national assessment of coastal waters suffering from low levels of oxygen. It shows areas of hypoxia have increased rapidly over that past 30 years. Dead [...]
Farmer Changes Practices to Stop the Gulf Dead Zone By Gabi MooreSep 01, 2010 The Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone has been declared one of the largest ever this year; void of oxygen due primarily to fertilizers that run off into the ocean from Midwestern farms. Thankfully, on the mainland, farmers like Minnosota’s Tony Thompson [...]
Gulf's 'dead zone' swelled this summer to one of largest areas on record By By Sharon Schmickle , Minn PostThu, Sep 2 2010 MinnPost photo by Sharon SchmickleMatt Rota: "We really aren’t going to know the full impact for years to come." The Gulf of Mexico’s so-called dead zone swelled this summer to afflict one [...]
New Report Warns of Expanding Threat of Hypoxia in U. S. Coastal Waters By NOAA NewsSeptember 3, 2010 A report issued today by key environmental and scientific federal agencies assesses the increasing prevalence of low-oxygen “dead zones” in U.S. coastal waters and outlines a series of research and policy steps that could help reverse the [...]
Minnesota farmer battles Gulf 'dead zone' By John D. Sutter, CNNAugust 30, 2010 Windom, Minnesota (CNN) -- Within moments of meeting Tony Thompson, you can tell he sees the world from a different tilt. His frayed shirt pocket is stuffed so full of notes that it's ripping at the seams. Hairy eyebrows spring off his face [...]
Deep Water Dead Zone Predicted in the Gulf By Jessica Marshall, Discovery NewsMon Aug 23, 2010 Patches underwater vantage in the Gulf of Mexico. Research predicts a vast oxygen-depleted zone will develop deep underwater around the spill site. Click to enlarge this image. AP Photo/Rich Matthews The oil gusher on the Gulf seabed may be stopped, but [...]
Gulf of Mexico's Fish Beachings May Be Increasing Because of BP Oil Spill By Leslie Patton, Bloomberg NewsAug 22, 2010 BP Plc’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be exacerbating a natural phenomenon that causes fish, crabs, eels and shrimp to swarm the shoreline to escape oxygen-depleted sea waters. Called “jubilees” by locals [...]
Gulf oil spill: Has it caused a new fish kill? (UPDATED) By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles TimesAugust 23, 2010 Louisiana state biologists Monday were investigating whether a large fish kill at the mouth of the Mississippi River was caused by oil or dispersants from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The gulf [...]
Local watershed groups addresses 'dead zone' in Gulf of MexicoAugust 27 2010 Many of you may have heard about this before. However, if you haven’t it is important that you understand what this means and why it’s a big deal here in Minnesota. This map shows the targeted area of a water quality project called [...]