Scientists are sounding the alarm about growing dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. Dead zones are areas of water with hypoxia, or dangerously low levels of oxygen. Dead zones are caused by ...

NOAA announced Thursday that their annual measurement of the largest dead zone in U.S. waters, the Gulf of Mexico dead zone, is roughly the size of New Jersey. A dead zone is an area where oxygen ...

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 ...

and several dead — another system is making its way towards the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Other than the new tropical system west of the Cabo Verde Islands, which is unlikely to develop ...

In 2022, a menhaden fishing ship and its net boats spilled about a million fish off the Louisiana coast, leaving the floating ...