Blue Legacy - Louisiana: Downstream dead zone By Blue Legacy's Expedition: Blue PlanetSunday, April 26, 2009Wilma Subra, southern Louisiana’s own activist-grandmother extraordinaire, was one of the first people to identify the Dead Zone. A chemist, she’d been conducting tests off of oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico when she noticed a strange dearth of [...]

Entrepreneurs Wade Into the 'Dead Nature Zone' By RUSSELL GOLDAugust 12, 2009, Wall Street JournalEvery spring, fertilizer runoff from the U.S. Mississippi River floods into the Gulf of Mexico, causing a massive algae bloom that leads to a giant oxygen-deprived "dead zone" where fish can't survive. Now, this annual problem is getting new attention, not [...]

Smaller Than Expected, But Severe, Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico By NOAA News ReleasesMon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:01 AM, <Press.Releases@noaa.gov>, tonrabalais@lumcon.eduContact:          Ben Sherman                                      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                         301-713-3066                                      July 27, 2009                                                                                                 EDITOR’S NOTE: Animation of Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone formation can be downloaded from the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory Web site: [...]

U.S. "dead zone" smaller but more severe: NOAA By Timothy GardnerMon Jul 27, 2009 4:51pm EDT, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, an area choked by low oxygen levels that threatens marine life, is smaller than expected this year but more deadly, the government said on Monday. The zone, caused [...]

Dead zone in Gulf smaller but still 3,000 square miles By ERIC STAATS July 27, 2009, Naples NewsNAPLES — Nancy Rabalais didn’t need any fancy testing equipment to know something was wrong in the waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Researchers mapped a 3,000-square-mile dead zone off the Louisiana coast last week, smaller than [...]

Gulfs dead zone smaller, more severe By AMY WOLD, The Advocate staff writer Jul 28, 2009 - Page: 8A The smaller than expected “dead zone” this summer does not mean the problem of seasonal low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is solved, speakers during a telephone conference said Monday. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [...]

Text from Video By Scott SmullenMon 27 Jul 2009 06:27 PM EDT, WVUE, Fox 8 News at 5, New Orleans, LAEst. Audience: 58,365 Est. Publicity Value: $612 (30 sec) the so-called "dead zone" in the gulf gets some high powered attention. from jane lubchenco-- the new administator of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. the [...]

Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Is Smaller Than Expected (Update2) By Brian K. SullivanJuly 27 , BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WIREThe so-called dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, where oxygen levels drop too low to support most life near the ocean’s bottom, is smaller this year than expected, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration <http://www.noaa.gov/> said [...]

Gulf of Mexico dead zone shrinks By Kate Spinner, Sarasota Herald Tribune, kate.spinner@heraldtribune.comMonday, July 27, 2009 at 2:45 p.m.The vast oxygen-starved dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico shrunk by about half its typical size this year, but scientists are not celebrating. The dead zone covered about 3,000 square miles of sea floor this [...]

Good news from the Gulf By Thibodaux Daily Comet Monday, July 27, 2009 at 11:01 a.m.Just a few weeks ago, the news about the Gulf of Mexico’s annual dead zone was grim. Researchers were predicting that the area of low oxygen and little life would be one of the largest ever. In fact, experts had [...]