For decades, an oxygen-depleted dead zone that is harmful to sea life has appeared in the Gulf of Mexico in a region off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. This year, it's larger than average ...

This year’s dead zone should be twice the usual size, Louisiana State oceanographers R. Eugene Turner and Nancy Rabalais wrote in “2017 Forecast: Summer Hypoxic Zone Size, Northern Gulf of Mexico.” ...

I got to explore the surrealness of the Gulf and its dead zone first-hand. About 15 miles out to sea off the Louisiana coast, the Gulf resembled a construction site. Oil rigs were all around. Huge ...