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 ...

New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching ...

A West Virginia University researcher is working to understand and estimate environmental cleanup costs associated with agricultural runoff that causes polluted "dead zones" in downstream coastal ...

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 ...

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

"The Gulf of Mexico algal bloom is a really big problem ... Because of this, fish die or migrate away from the hypoxic area, creating dead zones in the Gulf." By estimating how much fertilizer ...

“The northern Gulf of Mexico faces significant environmental challenges, including nutrient overloading, harmful algal blooms, and oxygen depleted ‘dead zones’,” Wang said. “These issues are primarily ...