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.” ...

GULF OF MEXICO (CNN ... grounds off the Louisiana coast where the 63-year-old has made a living for five decades have become an aquatic graveyard known as a "dead zone." "You don't see nothing ...

“The area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico has long been ... surrealness of the Gulf and its dead zone first-hand. About 15 miles out to sea off the Louisiana coast, the Gulf resembled ...

The northern Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” area with little to no oxygen will become larger than the state of Connecticut by the end of July, according to a study published Thursday. (CN) – The ...

Every summer in the Gulf of Mexico, marine life ... This creates an aptly named "dead zone." Last summer, the dead zone in the coastal waters near Louisiana and Texas was about the size of Delaware.