Killer tornadoes and the dead zone By Bob Swanson and Doyle RiceUSA Today; June 12, 2008http://blogs.usatoday.com/weather/2008/06/killer-tornadoe.html Killer tornadoes: The tragic deaths of four Boy Scouts in Iowa brings this year's tornado death toll to 118, according to the Storm Prediction Center. This makes it the deadliest year for twisters since 1998, when 132 Americans were [...]
Gulf Dead Zone Likely to Set Record By Kent GarberU.S. News & World Report; June 14, 2008http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2008/06/12/gulf-dead-zone-likely-to-set-record.html U.S. News reports the growth and environmental impact of marine dead zones: large, oxygen-depleted swaths of water that form each summer off the U.S. coast because of fertilizer runoff and other pollutants. Among other concerns, scientists have warned [...]
Gulf Plan May Drive EPA Bid For Water Trading In Mississippi Basin By Erica MartinsonDaily News from INSIDEEPA.COM; June 13, 2008http://www.insideepa.com/ EPA officials are hoping that the agency’s upcoming action plan for addressing the Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” of oxygen-depleted waters could drive a new agency effort to launch a watershed-wide nutrient trading program [...]
Halting Hypoxia By Jay LandersCivil Engineering; June 2008 To address hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico, the enormous amounts of nutrients entering the water body via the Mississippi River must be reduced. Achieving this goal will require an array of actions and strategies across a broad swath of America's heartland. Despite their enormous financial and [...]
Forecast: Dead zone off La., Texas coasts to grow By Associated PressAssociated Press; June 10, 2008http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DEAD_ZONE?SITE=CADIU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 [...]
Dead zone off La-Texas coast to grow By 2008 Associated PressHouston Chronicle; June 9, 2008http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5827949.html NEW ORLEANS — An area of oxygen-depleted waters off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas could grow this summer to 10,084 square miles, about as large as the state of Massachusetts, to the greatest expanse mapped. That forecast from scientists [...]
Dead zone in gulf could be largest on record By MSNBC staff and news service reportsMSNBC; June 10, 2008http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25080135/ NEW ORLEANS - 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 on record. If the [...]
Agriculture blamed as Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" grows By Sarah Lohman; St. Louis Post-Dispatchdenverpost.com; June 10, 2008http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_9544787 WASHINGTON — Scientists predicting the biggest-ever "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico are blaming Midwestern corn grown for ethanol for higher levels of pollution escaping down the Mississippi River. "In the past several years, there's been [...]
Scientists say floods could add to 'Dead Zone' By Perry BeemanDesMoinesRegister.com; June 10, 2008http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880610013 Scientists predict the floodwaters decimating the Midwest also will whack the Gulf of Mexico, pushing the so-called Dead Zone to its highest level since full measurements began in 1985.The researchers from Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium forecast [...]
Scientists say Midwestern farms cause large dead zone By Sarah Lohman, McClatchy NewspapersKansas City Star; June 10, 2008http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/658690.html WASHINGTON | Scientists predicting the biggest-ever “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico are blaming Midwestern farms. The corn grown for ethanol creates high levels of pollution that escape down the Mississippi River, they said. “In the [...]
