What is a travel "dead zone"? More importantly, how do you take advantage of them to snag the best deals on flights and ...

A 'dead zone' off the Gulf coast is larger than NOAA predicted. The massive area poses danger to marine life, and recovery could take decades.

Water quality quickly improved, dead zones shrank, and harmful algal blooms became less frequent. But the scourges of low-oxygen waters and sometimes-toxic algae reappeared in the mid-1990s.

The size of the dead zone in 2024 is about 3.5 times higher than the 2025 reduction target of 1,930 square miles set by the Mississippi River Nutrient Task Force, according to NOAA.

Dead zones change in size from year to year depending on rainfall, pollutants and other factors. But the eastern Gulf dead zone is something that needs further exploration, not only for size and ...

Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human agricultural and industrial ...

The annual forecast for the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, which president Trump has renamed the Gulf of America, predicts the section of water where oxygen is unnaturally low will be ...

The "dead zone" off the coast of Louisiana, mapped by researchers from July 21-26, 2024. The "dead zone" is an area where there is low or no dissolved oxygen, making it largely uninhabitable for ...

This year’s dead zone impacts a swath of marine habitat roughly the size of New Jersey, stretching from south Louisiana almost to Galveston, Texas. U.S. Geological Survey.

The dead zone of hypoxia—when dissolved oxygen levels in water drop below 2 milligrams per liter—happens almost every year off the coast of Alabama, but the extent, magnitude and duration ...