Located largely off the coast of Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico dead zone forms every summer due to nutrient-rich runoff from the Mississippi River Basin and the explosive algae blooms they trigger ...

The Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone, an area with critically low ... Excess nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus, lead to algal blooms that deplete oxygen when they decompose, creating ...

Tyson Foods, the largest meat producer in the United States, is a major cause of an enormous dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico ... s heartland eventually dump into the Gulf of Mexico, where they feed ...

This "dead zone," which now ... fertilizer going into the Gulf annually, with 2007 figures not yet available. The increase in corn growing and the size of the algae bloom visible from satellite ...

This year’s so-called dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is the third ... Once the nutrients land in the Gulf of Mexico, they feed blooms of algae. As the algae sink to the bottom, die and decompose, ...

A floating mass of seaweed stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico is now the biggest seaweed bloom in the world, according to satellite observations. The algal explosion in the Atlantic ...

The red tide has left tons of dead ... bloom". According to the FWC, there are many types of red tide in different parts of the world, but K. brevis is found almost exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico.

An exceptionally dense algal bloom along the north shore of the York River. These blooms are caused by excess nutrients ...

Last summer, dozens of Long Island’s ponds, lakes, bays and estuaries were affected by oxygen-depleted zones and harmful algal blooms ... was a record number of dead zones for Long Island ...

It’ll push into the Gulf of Mexico and parts of the United States ... of this biologically-accessible nitrogen, a huge bloom of toxic red algae had formed within the study area, an 8,100 ...