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. NEW ORLEANS (CN) – In ...

An update of Louisiana's strategy to help reduce the low-oxygen “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is being criticized as inadequate because of its reliance on a proposed project now in ...

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 ...

A severe weather system has caused widespread flooding and tornadoes, bringing storm damage to the US South. Large areas across the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were affected ...

The dead zone is fueled by agricultural runoff and other nutrient pollution that flushes into the Gulf from the Mississippi. Rising temperatures speed the growth of algae that feeds on the nutrients.

Adam Robinson stands on a pile of beach sand inside his unit caused by the storm surge from hurricanes Helene and Milton at the Fisherman’s Cove beachfront condominium in Siesta Key, Florida on ...