A dead zone, or as scientists prefer, a hypoxic zone, is an area in estuaries and coastal waters around the mouth of larger rivers entering the sea where the oxygen content is too low to support most ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Scientists released findings showing that the Gulf dead zone west of the Mississippi River is smaller than last year, at around 4,772 square miles. The dead zone is an area of low ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Scientists released findings showing that the Gulf dead zone west of the Mississippi River is around 4,772 square miles. The dead zone is an area of low to no oxygen that can kill ...

Students Jorddy Gonzalez and Lily Tubbs retrieve the CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) sensor package after measuring dissolved oxygen at a regular stop on the annual hypoxia cruise while ...

THE "DEAD ZONE" IN THE GULF OF MEXICO -- an area that forms every year where much of the aquatic life has died -- has begun to appear much earlier than usual, indicating it may be larger than in the ...

For the next month, a team of scientists will study what they call a disturbing trend in the Gulf of Mexico -- the "dead zone." Through mid-July, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...