Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

Shakespeare's famous line from Romeo and Juliet came to mind after US President Donald Trump controversially announced he had renamed the Gulf of Mexico ... marine dead zone, an area of sea ...

Donald Trump's attempted renaming of the Gulf ... of Mexico in just one month. That’s equivalent to a flotilla of more than 4,000 shipping containers fully loaded with pollution. Dead zones ...

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 ...

Monitors expect increased nitrate concentrations this month as part of the “spring flush,” when April showers wash fertilizer ...

Anyone can join an all-volunteer effort that keep track of how much nitrate and nitrite are getting into Iowa's water ...

When Steve Stierwalt studied agriculture at the University of Illinois in the 1970s, soil health wasn’t commonly taught or ...

Illinois is one of the leading states for farm fertilizer runoff and one of the top contributors to the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone ... The Gulf Hypoxia Task Force, a federally funded program ...

This creates an inhospitable environment for water plants and fish, which either leave or die, creating "dead zones." The Gulf of Mexico is the site of one such dead zone, caused by the agricultural ...