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The Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ can kill fish and marine life. How large is it this year?
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 11 months agoScientists have released their 2023 forecast for the so-called “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico —...
Transforming old oil rigs into seaweed farms could resurrect "dead zones" in the ocean
Salon via Yahoo News· 8 months agoUnderwater Kelp Forrest Getty Images/Douglas Klug As Big Agriculture continues to dump fertilizer...
When 'below average' is a good thing: Gulf's dead zone not as big this year, scientists say
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIt’s not the happiest date on the environmental calendar, but this year’s Day of the Dead Zone was a...
To reduce harmful algal blooms and dead zones, the US needs a national strategy for regulating farm...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSatellite photo of an algal bloom in western Lake Erie, July 28, 2015. NASA Earth...
Nearly a Million Dead Fish Wash Up on Louisiana Coast, Commercial Fishing Boats to Blame
Outdoor Life via Yahoo News· 8 months agoLocal residents counted more than 300 dead redfish among the hundreds of thousands of dead menhaden...
Latest EPA assessment shows almost no improvement in river and stream nitrogen pollution
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking...
5,000-Mile-Wide Seaweed Threatens Caribbean & Florida Beaches
Out Traveler via Yahoo News· 1 year ago(CNN) -- A gargantuan mass of seaweed that formed in the Atlantic Ocean is headed for the shores of...
Gulf's 'dead zone' forecast to be smaller than average, but still twice reduction goal
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoNEW ORLEANS (AP) — The oxygen-depleted “dead zone” that forms each year in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana and Texas is forecast to cover about 4,155 square miles (10,761 square kilometers) ...
‘It’s getting worse’ – U.S. failing to stem tide of harmful farm pollutants
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoVENICE, Louisiana — Kindra Arnesen is a 46-year-old commercial fishing boat operator who has spent...
10 dead, including Georgia firefighter, after dangerous rip currents off Florida and Alabama beaches
WSB Cox articles via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA firefighter from Georgia and two fathers who drowned while trying to save their children are among...