Missouri Corn Stalk Testing Benefits the 'Dead Zone' in Gulf By Public News Service - MOJuly 8, 2010DEXTER, MO. - Missouri FFA students will soon be in the field with farmers to learn how cutting-edge science on the farm could help the Gulf of Mexico. The program involves testing corn stalks for nitrogen, allowing farmers [...]

Oil And Dead Zone Threaten Gulf Mexico By PRLog (Press Release)Jul 13, 2010 The Gulf of Mexico is under a double threat. The BP oil spill, as well as the infamous ‘dead zone’, created from nitrogen, which is used to fertilize corn. Leaching into the Mississippi River, it flows out into the Gulf. Up to [...]

Dead Zone in Gulf Linked to Oil By Jessica MarshallFri Jul 9, 2010 08:21 AM ET, DISCOVERY NEWS  THE GIST A zone of low oxygen has persisted for more than a month off the coast of Alabama. Wildlife that can move has left. Plankton in the low-oxygen zones has died. The long-term effects are uncertain. [...]

Video: Low-oxygen dead zone found on seafloor off Alabama coast By Ben Raines, Press-Register Sunday, July 04, 2010, 5:00 AM  Recent testing by the Press-Register indicates that a low-oxygen dead zone is hugging the seafloor in places along the Alabama coast, with levels far below the threshold required to support life. The newspaper sampled oxygen [...]

Gulf Coast Dead Zone Set to Grow By David Biello reports (with narration by Christie Nicholson), SCIENTIFIC AMERICANJuly 4, 2010There's a dead zone forming in the Gulf of Mexico, and I'm not talking about the ongoing oil gushing from BP's well. No, it's the annual dead zone that forms thanks to all the fertilizers washing [...]

Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Jealous of Gulf Of Mexico Oil Blowout Publicity By John DeCock, President, Clean Water Action July 2, 2010 05:50 PM  COMMENTARY In an interview this morning with Clean Water Action, the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone complained that the Gulf Of Mexico BP Oil Blowout is overshadowing his many years [...]

Dead zone in gulf linked to ethanol production By Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLETuesday, July 6, 2010 (07-06) 04:00 PDT Washington - -- While the BP oil spill has been labeled the worst environmental catastrophe in recent U.S. history, a biofuel is contributing to a Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" the size of [...]

Gulf of Mexico dead zone predicted to be the size of New Jersey this year By By Elizabeth Weise, USA TodayJun 29, 2010 The Gulf of Mexico's 'dead zone' may be larger this year than in recent years, as big as the state of New Jersey, scientists are predicting. This year's dead zone could measure between 6,500 [...]

Dead zone in Gulf could be as large as New Jersey this year By Andrea Thompson, OurAmazingPlanetJune 28, 2010 The Gulf of Mexico's dead zone — an underwater area with little or no oxygen that has plagued Gulf waters for many years — will be larger than usual this year, scientists say. Dead zones are a [...]

Tale of two dead zones: Gulf's larger, Bay's smaller By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore SunJune 28, 2010As if the Gulf of Mexico doesn't have enough problems right now, scientists are predicting that a larger-than-average "dead zone" will form there this summer.  The Chesapeake Bay, meanwhile, appears to be in line for one of its smallest [...]