The Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone is an area in the northern gulf that has too little oxygen to support most marine animals (hypoxic means oxygen deprived). The zone exists because of the flood of ...

A recently released forecast predicted a larger-then-normal dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this summer. The dead zone, or hypoxic area, is an area in a body of water with low oxygen that can be ...

The number of known hypoxic pockets of ocean has dramatically ... Scientists have announced that the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone"—where there is so little oxygen that the ocean becomes ...

Eugene Turner and Nancy Rabalais wrote in “2017 Forecast: Summer Hypoxic Zone Size, Northern Gulf of Mexico.” Even during a usual year, the dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico is the largest in ...

Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium are forecasting that this year’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic “dead” zone will be between 7,286 and 8,561 square miles ...

SeaTrac has used its SP-48 uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) to map potential hypoxic zones in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico as part ...

Researchers also measured a 1,634-square-mile “dead zone east” stretching ... that are part of the Gulf Hypoxia Program or overseen through the Gulf of Mexico Alliance also will receive ...