Fertilizer’s toxic journey From Louisiana's "cancer alley" upriver to a soybean farm, then back down to the Gulf of Mexico where it feeds the dead zone. by The Fern | May 22, 2025By Garrett Hazelwood and Eric SchmidThe chemical industry is big business in Louisiana. Companies here manufacture plastics, fuels, pesticides, and cleaning products. But one part of the [...]

 Nancy Rabalais is the Mother of Dead Zones by Blue Frontier | March 25, 2024 In the latest episode of Rising Tide, along with Blue News, David and Vicki talk with Dr. Nancy Rabalais from Louisiana State University. Nancy’s been called ‘the mother of dead zones’ in that her decades of research has helped define the Gulf [...]

NOAA, partners to report on 2023 Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ monitoring cruise In June, NOAA scientists issued a forecast for this summer's dead zone — an area characterized by low to no oxygen levels that can kill fish and other marine organisms. This year’s forecast estimated a dead zone extent of approximately 4,155 square [...]

A Sick Ecosystem

Top of Mind with Julie Rose The Dead Zone Guest: Nancy Rabalais, PhD, Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Shell Oil Endowed Chair in Oceanography/Wetland Sciences, Louisiana State University, Distinguished Research Professor, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium The dead zone is a mass of water the size of New Jersey just off the [...]

A Deathly Sea (Part 2)

MONDAY: Cathy Kling, Nancy Rabalais, and Eugene Turner on the Gulf's "Dead Zone" + Bernie Pinsonat Professor Cathy Kling of Iowa State University, Nancy Rabalais of the Louisiana Marine Consortium, and Professor Eugene Turner of LSU's Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences join the show for the first two segments to discuss the Gulf [...]