Another Problem with Biofuels? By Bryan WalshTime.com; Mar 12, 2008http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1721693,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-sidebar It's called the dead zone. Agricultural fertilizer byproducts like nitrogen are running off farms and into the Mississippi River, which then spills out into the Gulf of Mexico. Those chemicals help feed crops on land, but as they build up in the still, warm waters [...]
The Gulf's Growing 'Dead Zone' By Bryan WalshTime.com; June 17, 2008http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1815305,00.html The American Midwest is essentially the granary of the world, supplying corn, wheat and other crops to markets from Chile to China. But all that food doesn't grow by itself. In 2006 U.S. farmers used more than 21 million tons of nitrogen, phosphorus and [...]
Minnesota, EPA launch steps to reduce dead zone in Gulf of Mexico By Sea StachuraMinnesota Public Radio; June 17, 2008http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/17/deadzone_steps/ Minnesota's pollution control agency is joining with the U.S. EPA on a plan to shrink the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico. The hypoxic zone is a dead zone where algae has bloomed on [...]
Summit tackles 'dead zone' By Chris KirkhamThe Times-Picayune; June 18, 2008http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-0/121376654167590.xml&coll=1 As scientists predict the formation of the largest-ever "dead zone" disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico this summer, a slew of federal and state conservation officials held an annual meeting in New Orleans this week to address the growing -- and elusive -- ecological [...]
Louisiana Signs New Hypoxia Action Plan with Other Mississippi River StatesLouisiana CPRA For Immediate Release: June 16, 2008Contact: Chris Macaluso(225) 342-3968chris.macaluso@la.govhttp://www.lacpra.org/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&articleID=97&catID=1 NEW ORLEANS -- The State of Louisiana joined the eight other states along the Mississippi River, the State of Ohio and several federal agencies in signing a revised national action plan to reduce hypoxia [...]
Task Force Releases US Gulf Dead Zone Plan By Brian FordHouston ICIS News; June 16 2008http://www.icis.com/Articles/2008/06/16/9132720/task-force-releases-us-gulf-dead-zone-plan.html HOUSTON (ICIS news)--A US task force on Monday released an updated plan to reduce the size of the dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico, which is caused in part by fertilizer run-off in the Mississippi river. The Environmental Protection [...]
Red tide recipe flows into Gulf By Kate SpinnerSarasota Herald Tribune; June 17, 2008http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080617/NEWS/806170475/1661 The Mississippi River carried record amounts of pollution from farms, cities and sewage plants into the Gulf of Mexico in May, leading scientists to predict a vast algae bloom that will kill sea life across a wider area than ever before [...]
Experts predict Gulf dead zone will extend toward Texas this summer By Emily GuevaraThe Enterprise, Beaumont, Texas; June 17 2008http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19778974&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=512588&rfi=6 Southeast Texas fishing enthusiasts, shrimpers and others could be in for a difficult summer if a larger-than-ever "dead zone" moves into Texas waters.The Louisiana State Universities Consortium predicted that the zone, an area of low [...]
Gulf dead zone could be largest ever By Maya RodriguezEyewitness News 4WWL, WWLTV.COM; June 16, 2008http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl061608bhdeadzone.e383e85.html This year’s Dead Zone, an area that has little marine life because of a lack of oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico, could become the largest one ever recorded. A growing dead zone in the Gulf may have a [...]
Dead zone to expand By Times Staff and Wire ReportsLos Angeles Times; June 13, 2008 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-briefs14-2008jun14,0,4314043.story Researchers predict a "dead zone" of oxygen-depleted waters off the Louisiana and Texas coasts could grow this summer to 10,084 square miles, making it the largest such expanse in at least 23 years.If the preliminary forecast holds, the size [...]