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Dead zone

A shrimp boat is shown in a illustration that combines the boat with a map of the Mississippi Delta.

Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone

Growing Food, Sowing Trouble

Farm pollutants from multiple states feed a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Shrimpers pay the cost.

An ariel photograph showing Lake Erie coved in green algae with a boat moving through the middle.

Lake Erie turns toxic every summer. Officials aren’t cracking down on the source.

Growing Food, Sowing Trouble
A bird eats dead fish in the area where thousands of dead fish washed up on Abangaritos beach in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Feb. 16, 2017.

As oceans suffocate, dead zones grow

Environment
The World

Marine Biologist Nancy Rabalais Wins MacArthur Genius Grant

Northwest Dead Zone

Northwest Dead Zone

Scientists have been monitoring a growing area of low oxygen that’s killing much of the sea life off the coast of Oregon and Washington states.

What’s Corn Got To Do With It?

One scientist connects the dots between an aquatic dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico and fertilizer runoff from farms hundreds of miles up the Mississippi River.

The World

Dead Zones

Researchers go to the bottom of Lake Erie to try and track down the causes and effects of low oxygen waters called “dead zones.”

The World

Dead Zones

Researchers go to the bottom of Lake Erie to try and track down the causes and effects of low oxygen waters called “dead zones.”