Tyson Foods, the largest meat producer in the United States, is a major cause of an enormous dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico – expected to be the largest ever this summer – according to a new report ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Charlie Carlson, Hawkins' grandson, author of "Weird Florida" and the person who coined the "Dead Zone" nickname ... Florida before moving into the Gulf of Mexico, abruptly and unexpectedly ...

So, nitrates from cropland and large livestock operations flow into our waterways and on to the dead zone in the Gulf of ...

Six people were initially reported injured and taken to hospitals in nearby Campeche Sunday after a Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico was set ablaze following an ...

The dead zone recurs each summer, says Henkart, who has monitored it for the past seven years. At Bottom: A water sample from the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone (left) is oxygen starved compared ...

Deaths, power outages, and billions in destruction; the damage of Hurricane Milton is still unfolding, but is it one of the worst this century? Alicja Hagopian and Julia Musto report ...

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