The convergence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers near St. Louis fuels the region's infamous summer humidity and spring ...

Efforts to reduce nutrient runoff into the Gulf are largely outlined in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Hypoxia Task Force Action Plan. Long-term, its goal is to reduce the dead zone to about ...

NOAA scientists have forecast that the annual “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, currently referred to as the Gulf of America ...

It began as an innocently planned multi-day hiking trip. Morgan Chesky, a broadcaster from Dallas, was fit and wanted a challenge with his friends. He had tackled higher spots before just fine. The ...

The hypoxic conditions affect commercial and recreational fishing as well as cause ecological harm. Efforts to reduce nutrient runoff into the Gulf are largely outlined in the Environmental Protection ...

NOAA is forecasting this summer's Gulf of America (formerly Gulf of Mexico) "dead zone" to be average-sized, covering approximately 5,574 square miles—an area roughly three times the size of ...

Ocean acidification and deoxygenation are universal global environmental problems and might influence the physiology of marine organisms, element cycling and ultimately change marine ecosystem ...

The five-year average size of the dead zone (also known as the hypoxic zone) is now 4,347 square miles, over two times larger than management targets. Since records began in 1985, the largest hypoxic ...

Map of measured Gulf hypoxia zone, July 21–26, 2024. Red area denotes 2 mg/L of oxygen or lower, the level which is considered hypoxic, at the bottom of the seafloor.

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The hypoxic zone is now 9,000 square kilometres — up from 1,300 in 2003 — and spreading from the western St. Lawrence to Anticosti Island and northward.

This year’s hypoxic zone is the seventh smallest area on record since scientists began measuring the phenomenon in 1985. The largest zone was measured at 8,776 square miles in 2017.