The Gulf Was Sick Before the Oil Spill, and How to Make it Well Again By Steven Apfelbaum Chairman, Applied Ecological Services, Huffington Post24 August, 2010It's been more than four months since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, creating the worst oil disaster in U.S. history. While the gusher has been capped, the cleanup will [...]

Many problems linked by one theme - degradation of coastal wetlands By Bob Marshall, The Times-PicayuneSunday, August 15, 2010, 5:03 AMAt first glance, three issues percolating in the local outdoor community last week had little in common. Eliot Kamenitz, The Times-PicayuneAlthough small algae blooms have been reported by fishers for several weeks, environmentalists searching for [...]

Farms threaten Gulf, too By By JEFF GUNDERSON McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceMonday, August 16, 2010 at 1:00 a.m. Now that the BP oil well has been plugged, it's more urgent than ever to address the Gulf Coast "dead zone." The dead zone is a huge oxygen-starved region beneath the Gulf Coast surface, caused primarily by agricultural [...]

Gulf of Mexico `Dead Zone' Grows as Spill Impact Is Studied By By Leslie Patton, Bloomberg NewsThe western Gulf of Mexico, including the dead zone, will have a shrimp harvest of about 45.2 million pounds this year, 20 percent below the historical average, according to the Southeast Fisheries Science Center in Galveston. Photographer: Mario Tama/Getty [...]

Farm runoff another threat to Gulf By BY JEFF GUNDERSON, Columbia Daily Star TribuneTuesday, August 17, 2010Now that the BP oil well has been plugged, it’s more urgent than ever to address the Gulf Coast “dead zone.” The dead zone is a huge oxygen-starved region beneath the Gulf Coast surface, primarily caused by agricultural runoff [...]

No cap for nitrogen: Editorial By Editorial page staff, The Times-Picayune Saturday, August 07, 2010, 6:40 AM The crude oil that fouled the Gulf of Mexico captured the nation's attention this summer, but other pollutants -- nutrients washed down the Mississippi River -- arrive every year, causing a massive dead zone off Louisiana's coast. This [...]

Dead Zone Area Extends To Lower Texas Coast By Texas A&M News and Information ServicesAugust 9, 2010 COLLEGE STATION, Aug. 9, 2010 – The 2010 “dead zone” area has for the first time covered areas from High Island to Port O’ Connor, says Texas A&M University oceanographer Steve DiMarco, who has just completed a research [...]

Gulf of Mexico Oil Drilling Halt Is A Selective Moratorium By by Dan Juneau, President and CEO of the Louisiana Association of Business and IndustryFRIDAY, 30 JULYThe economic toll from the drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico is beginning to mount. On July 28, Baker Hughes, an international oilfield services company based in Houston, [...]

Gulf Oil Spill Meets Dead Zone: What Lies Beneath By Brenda Peterson, Huffington PostAugust 5, 2010 11:20 AM Scientists in Louisiana have just documented that the disturbing "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, is one of the largest ever -- about the size of Massachusetts. Now, this [...]

Massive 'dead zone' in the Gulf -- but not because of the oil spill By Pete Spotts, The Christian Science MonitorAugust 2, 2010  Gulf of Mexico: A boat sits anchored in a waterway in the Atchafalaya river delta on Atchafalaya Bay in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, July 28. Patrick Semansky/AP Enlarge         [...]