1733-1750 (18 pages) The Louisiana Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico experiences recurrent bottom water hypoxia under summertime ... Historical data confirms that nitrite accumulation occurs frequently in ...

The number of known hypoxic pockets of ocean has dramatically ... Scientists have announced that the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone"—where there is so little oxygen that the ocean becomes ...

Eugene Turner and Nancy Rabalais wrote in “2017 Forecast: Summer Hypoxic Zone Size, Northern Gulf of Mexico.” Even during a usual year, the dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico is the largest in ...

Six of the nine stations revealed such oxygen-deprived, hypoxic water ... nutrients that go to the Gulf of Mexico," Rabalais said. "And so the size of the low-oxygen zone has increased in ...

Did you know there's a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico? No, we're not talking about the 1983 sci-fi horror film, or the early 2000s sci-fi TV series. This one is very much real.