Even during a usual year, the dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico is the largest in North America and the second largest in the world, according to data collected by environmental groups. The ...

Track path of Invest 97L This year, the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico entered into the top third of largest dead zones in records that go back 38 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

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 ... Today’s largest open ...

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 to the marine consortium's annual measurement completed in July.

Scientists have recorded one of the largest "dead zones" in the Gulf's history this year. This oxygen-sapped area -- currently about the size of New Jersey-- is caused in large part by fertilizer ...

Shakespeare's famous line from Romeo and Juliet came to mind after US President Donald Trump controversially announced he had renamed the Gulf ... s second-largest marine dead zone, an area ...