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 ...

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 ...

We are still recovering from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill that happened 15 years ago, devastating our seafood industry and marine life here on the coast. Eleven people were tragically killed in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Its goal is to bring together experts from various fields who can bring solutions to communities in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. "All of our communities across the Gulf Coast struggle ...

A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi River on a training row ... where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way, it passes through the cities of ...

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 ...