The Gulf of Mexico's hypoxic "dead zone" at the end of the Mississippi River is seen by satellite south of Louisiana in 2017. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Buy Photo NEW ORLEANS -- ...

Did you know there's a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico? No, we're not talking about the 1983 sci-fi horror film, or the early 2000s sci-fi TV series. This one is very much real. For decades, ...

The “dead zone” where the Mississippi River dumps into the Gulf of Mexico — an area of low oxygen that cannot sustain life, fueled by pollution running the length of the river — clocked in at 3,275 ...

A dead zone, or as scientists prefer, a hypoxic zone, is an area in estuaries and coastal waters around the mouth of larger rivers entering the sea where the oxygen content is too low to support most ...

This year's oxygen-starved zone in the Gulf of Mexico is smaller than forecast, but still larger than the goal set by a coalition of upstream governments. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

NOAA scientists are forecasting this summer’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic area or “dead zone” – an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and other marine life – to be approximately 6,700 square miles ...

NOAA is forecasting a summer “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico that will cover approximately 4,155 square miles, making it below the 5,364 square mile average over the 36-year history of dead zone ...

NOAA-supported scientists have determined this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone”— an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life — is approximately 2,116 square miles, or equivalent to ...

The Gulf of Mexico's hypoxic zone, or "dead zone," is below average this year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The area of low to no oxygen is 3,058 square miles, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. On Wednesday, scientists announced that this ...

It’s not the happiest date on the environmental calendar, but this year’s Day of the Dead Zone was a bit cheerier than usual. Every summer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists ...

Researchers have studied the emergence of hypoxia -- low oxygen levels -- in the Gulf over three decades, a stressor on the health of marine life in the region and the larger ecosystem. A team of ...