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Donald Trump's attempted renaming of the Gulf of Mexico shows he sees it as a symbol of national pride but beneath the waves ...
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 ...
A federal judge in Washington has ruled against the Trump administration's efforts to put industrial fish farms in federal ...
This is a bigger issue than many people realize. New findings reveal disturbing cost of modern farming practices for everyday ...
And in just the Gulf of Mexico, there are significantly different ... In the Gulf, there’s particular concern about the “dead zone,” a New Jersey-size area of low oxygen fueled by rising ...
Anyone can join an all-volunteer effort that keep track of how much nitrate and nitrite are getting into Iowa's water ...
Illinois is one of the leading states for farm fertilizer runoff and one of the top contributors to the Gulf of Mexico’s dead ...
When Steve Stierwalt studied agriculture at the University of Illinois in the 1970s, soil health wasn’t commonly taught or ...
Illinois helped get for subsidies to farmers for planting cover crops in the fall, yet despite its popularity with growers, ...