Even during a usual year, the dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico is the largest in North America and the second largest in the world, according to data collected by environmental groups. 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 ... the ...

Scientists have announced that the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone"—where there ... This makes it the 12th largest dead zone recorded in the past 38 years of record-keeping. The National Oceanic ...

An illustration shows how runoff from river basins leads to hypoxic "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Research on aquatic dead zones highlights the economic and environmental impacts of nitrogen runoff from agricultural fertilizers, which lead to algal blooms and ...

A second concern is pollution leakage. If nitrogen runoff to the Gulf is reduced by 45%, some of the sources of pollution—the agriculture that requires fertilizer—may migrate to another area ...

An illustration shows how runoff from river basins leads to hypoxic "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration video capture) New research on the cost of ...

Previously, the largest recorded dead zone in the ocean occurred in the Gulf of Mexico, where agricultural runoff from the Midwest created seasonal algae blooms that starved huge swaths of the ...