The Gulf of Mexico is home to a massive ‘dead zone,’ where oxygen levels drop so low that fish and marine life can’t survive.

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 ...

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

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird speaks at the Hyatt Regency Coralville Hotel in Coralville, Iowa on Wednesday, Dec. 13, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dead fish spills have declined dramatically after the state established a new buffer zone for the menhaden industry.

Two people have been killed after record rainfall produced severe flooding in and around the city of Roswell in the US State of New Mexico. The New Mexico National Guard said that 309 people had ...

A significant shift in the storm's forecast track means the threat to the US is dwindling, but is increasing for Mexico's Gulf Coast ... the system in the western zone that caused oscillations ...