Did you know there's a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico? No, we're not talking ... calculated using discharge from the Mississippi River and nutrient runoff data from the U.S. Geological ...

They said their petition documented “how excessive nitrogen and phosphorous pollution in the Mississippi River Basin and northern Gulf of Mexico has caused a large zone of hypoxia (i.e., a low oxygen ...

An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite image of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, where 'dead zones' can ...

Eventually, a gap in those mountains formed, opening a path for the river we now know as the Mississippi to flow to the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists call that gap the Mississippi Embayment ...

As Pride and her crew aboard the Pelican monitored the Gulf waters, the journal Science published a study last week revealing that there are more than 400 dead zones around the globe, double the ...

The findings clarify how nitrogen is delivered to the gulf and ... oxygen depleted ‘dead zones’,” Wang said. “These issues are primarily driven by nitrogen pollution transported via rivers, with the ...

Yet this headline-grabbing body of water holds a dark secret – it harbours the world’s second-largest marine dead zone ... the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers into the Gulf of Mexico ...

According to the National Park Service, the Mississippi River flows 2,350 miles from its source at Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico. However, a 2018 report from the U.S. Geological Survey’s ...