This includes the EPA's new multi-million-dollar Gulf Hypoxia Program, which seeks to reduce the spread of nutrients from agricultural runoff and thus shrink the dead zone. Nutrients such as ...

Six of the nine stations revealed such oxygen-deprived, hypoxic water ... One of the major dead zones is in the Gulf of Mexico. It is 8,000 square miles, nearly the size of New Jersey, according ...

The hypoxia or “dead” zone in the Gulf of Mexico has been back in the news as scientists report this year’s area will be smaller but still a major issue for aquatic organisms in the coastal ...

FROM NOAA "Forecasters from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center — part of the National Weather Service — issued the 2025 U.S.

Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium are forecasting that this year’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic “dead” zone will be between 7,286 and 8,561 square miles ...

Hypoxia reduction remains a critical component of CPRA efforts, aiming to decrease the size of the Gulf's "dead zone," an area of low oxygen that can kill fish and other marine life. The Gulf ...

In the bottom waters, elevated CDOM levels in the ∼32-36 salinity range were associated with low DO and relatively higher bacterial abundance; this suggests a potential CDOM source due to microbial ...