The sedimentary records showed the team that the largest open ocean dead zones gradually expanded over the past eight million years, said Wang, who was joined on the project ... Our research group at ...

The Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” will cover 6,705 square miles this year. According to NOAA, this section of the Gulf is “an ...

NEW ORLEANS (CN) – In an annual prediction of the size of the Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone,” scientists this week said this summer’s will be the third-largest ever: roughly the size of New Jersey. This ...

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 ...

That means that anything that goes into those rivers ends up down the Mississippi and ultimately into the Gulf of Mexico ... This "dead zone," which now measures over 7,900 square miles, was ...

An illustration shows how runoff from river basins leads to hypoxic "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration video ... by the EPA’s goal of 45% will cost ...

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

New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $ ... by the EPA’s goal of 45% will cost billions of dollars a year. “I suspect that the benefits of reducing nitrogen ...

The Latest In his inaugural address, President Trump doubled-down on his pledge to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. Here’s what to know about the Gulf, the name and the possibility it ...