The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries warns of potential fish kills statewide due to environmental factors.

Scientists have announced that the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone"—where there is so little oxygen that the ocean becomes unsurvivable—is now the size of New Jersey. Around 6,705 square miles of ...

From about May to September every year, the Gulf develops the largest hypoxic zone in the U.S. Hypoxic conditions occur when an area of water has less than 2 milligrams of oxygen per liter of water.

In 2001, a federal-state task force set a long-term goal of reducing the dead zone, or hypoxic area, to 1,900 square miles — about 35% of the current average. “The action plan to reduce the size of ...

A dead zone occurs at the bottom of a body of water when there isn't enough oxygen in the water to support marine life. Also ...

It's the seventh-smallest zone measured by the NOAA-funded LSU/LUMCON cruise since measurements began in 1985. Map of measured Gulf low-oxygen hypoxia (dead zone), July 23 - July 28 ...

The five-year average size of the dead zone is now 4,298 square miles, more than two times larger than the 2035 target. "It's critical that we measure this region's hypoxia as an indicator of ...

But previous models and analyses aiming to describe how hypoxic zones emerge were missing something, according to Kamazima Lwiza, a marine physicist at Stony Brook University's marine science ...

The scientific term for a dead zone is called hypoxia, which in Latin means "too little oxygen." Hypoxia occurs when less oxygen is dissolved in a body of water. Nearly all animals need oxygen to ...

“Because of this, fish die or migrate away from the hypoxic area, creating dead zones in the Gulf.” The study also models scenarios in which crops that use a lot of nitrogen are moved away from the ...

Iowa adopted a Nutrient Reduction Strategy after a U.S. EPA task force called on states throughout the Mississippi River basin to take action to shrink the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone. Also known ...

The five-year average size of the dead zone is now 4,298 square miles, more than two times larger than the 2035 target. “It's critical that we measure this region's hypoxia as an indicator of ...