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 ...

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 ...

Most of the nutrient pollution contributing to the dead zone flows down the ... efforts that are part of the Gulf Hypoxia Program or overseen through the Gulf of Mexico Alliance also will receive ...

This year's dead zone far exceeds the 1,900 square-mile goal set by the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force, a collaborative ...

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 ...