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The zone this year is about 6,334 square miles, an area slightly larger than the state of Connecticut. A dead zone occurs at the bottom of a body of water when there isnt enough oxygen in the water to support marine life. This summers dead zone is about three times times larger than the goal a task force of state and federal agencies set in 2001. The annual Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" – a region of oxygen-depleted water off the Louisiana and Texas coasts thats harmful to sea life – is larger...

Researchers find that this year’s Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone is larger than expected. The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is bigger this summer than scientists had forecasted. Researchers have just returned from their annual trip to the mouth of the Mississippi River and say extra runoff is the reason. The dead zone is a huge hypoxic area where excess nitrogen, largely from fertilizer used on farms in the Midwest, causes algal blooms that deplete the water of oxygen, which kills plants and ani...

University of Michigan The Mississippi River near Vicksburg, looking Northeast at the Interstate 20 bridge, the confluence of the Yazoo River is in the foreground. The photo was taken by a drone flown by Jim Alvis and Mike Manning of the U.S. Geological Survey in the summer of 2016. Image credit: USGS A team of scientists including a University of Michigan aquatic ecologist is forecasting this summer’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic area or “dead zone,” an area of low to no oxygen that can kill f...

The “dead zone” that appears in the Gulf of Mexico ever summer is expected to be smaller than normal this year, according to NOAA scientists.

TSCA/FIFRA/TRI EPA Announces Univar Solutions USA Will Pay $165,000 For FIFRA Violations:EPA announced on April 19, 2021, that Univar Solutions USA, Inc. of Portland, Oregon, will pay a $165,000 penalty for violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) when it failed to label properly its “Woodlife 111” pesticide, which is used as a wood preservative. EPA notes that under FIFRA, “a pesticide is misbranded if, ‘ the labeling accompanying it does not contain di...

Iowa ag secretary asks Biden administration to back effort to curb ‘dead zone’ in gulf Monday, March 8, 2021 2:56 PM Radio Iowa: A 12-state group working to reduce the size of the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is asking for support from the Biden administration. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig is co-chair of the Hypoxia Task Force, which aims to cut nutrient runoff in the Mississippi River basin. Naig said the group  recently sent a letter requesting supp...