Halle Parker / Daily Comet 10 June, 2019 As a result of the unusually heavy rainfall across the Mississippi River watershed, scientists forecast that the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico may be 67 percent larger than average this year. The dead zone, or hypoxic zone, is an area in the Gulf with [...]
Steve Hardy / The Advocate 23 May 2019 State and federal officials said Thursday it was appearing more likely that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would need to open the Morganza Spillway next month — for only the third time ever — to stave off what one likened to a “foreign disaster” flowing Louisiana’s way. [...]
Kelly Beile / BRProud.com 17 May 2019 Federal officials gather in Baton Rouge for latest meeting on Gulf of Mexico's dead zone Federal officials with the United States Environmental Protection Agency gathered in downtown Baton Rouge for the hypoxia task force meeting today. Assistant administrator for the EPA Office of Water Dave Ross, spoke [...]
Steve Hardy / The Advocate 16 May 2019 Scientists are predicting a "large to very large" Gulf of Mexico dead zone this year. It may even wind up being the largest on record. Experts discussed their forecast at a Thursday morning meeting of the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force, a coalition of [...]
Janet McConnaughey / Associated Press 16 May 2019 NEW ORLEANS — The year's widespread flooding has made it likely that a big, oxygen-starved "dead zone" off Louisiana's coast will form this summer, the head of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science said Thursday. Preliminary computer model runs "indicate a large to very large year," [...]
Janet McConnaughey / AP 16 May 2019 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The year’s widespread flooding has made it likely that a big, oxygen-starved “dead zone” off Louisiana’s coast will form this summer, the head of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science said Thursday. Preliminary computer model runs “indicate a large to very large year,” [...]
Brian Kahn / Earther 27 March 2019 Photo: Getty The byzantine networks of rivers and streams that drain the Midwest is facing a flooding crisis of historic proportions. The multibillion disaster centered in Nebraska will spread this spring, with above average rainfall expected to cause floods to impact some 200 million Americans [...]
Steve Hardy / The Advocate 21 March 2019 The Mr. Andre', a DAL-CO Marine Services supply boat, passes in front of the Louisiana State Capitol, seen across the Mississippi River from the Old Ferry Landing in Port Allen, Wednesday, March 20, 2019. (Advocate staff photo by HILARY SCHEINUK) All of Louisiana will [...]
Erin Jordan / The Gazette 3 December 2018 Chapter 1: America’s Midwest faces worsening trouble with undrinkable well water, recreational lakes choked with toxic algae and water treatment plants requiring budget-busting upgrades to remove pollution washing from farm fields and industries. A government task force said in 2008 it would cut nitrate and phosphorus [...]
Erin Jordan / The Gazette2 December 2018 'They need to say it's against the law to pollute downstream' Tommy Olander Jr. on Aug. 9 drives his family's shrimping boat in Vermillion Bay off the Louisiana coast near Jeanerette. Vermillion Bay, inland of the oxygen-deprived “dead zone,” was expected soon to be full of shrimp [...]