Science news articles about 'dead zones'

  • Forecast: Dead zone off La., Texas coasts to grow

    Researchers predict a "dead zone" of oxygen-depleted waters off the Louisiana and Texas could grow this summer to 10,084 square miles, making it the largest such expanse in at least 23 years.
  • Floodwaters to widen 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico

    ... are heading down the Mississippi River, and scientists fear the deluge will dramatically increase this summer's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, covering an area ...
  • Floodwaters to widen 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico

    ... are heading down the Mississippi River, and scientists fear the deluge will dramatically increase this summer's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, covering an area ...
  • Large Dead Zones Predicted for Gulf, Chesapeake Bay

    Record-setting "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay appear likely this summer, according to new forecasts from a University of Michigan researcher.
  • Researcher says Gulf dead zone bigger than ever

    ... AP) -- A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever ...
  • Hurricane Dolly may have shrunk Gulf 'dead zone'

    The oxygen-starved "dead zone" that forms every summer in the Gulf of Mexico is a bit smaller than predicted this year because Hurricane Dolly stirred up the water, a scientist reported Monday.
  • Study shows continued spread of 'dead zones'

    ... in the 1960s. He first found scientific reports of dead zones in the 1910s, when there were 4. Worldwide, the number ... yields. Diaz and Rosenberg say the key to reducing dead zones is "to keep fertilizers on the land and out of the sea ...
  • Oceanic Dead Zones Continue to Spread

    ... bad news for the world's oceans: Dead zones--areas of bottom waters too oxygen ... no better--there are now 405 identified dead zones worldwide, up from 49 in the 1960s--and the world's largest dead zone remains the Baltic Sea, whose bottom waters now lack ...
  • Oceanic Dead Zones Continue to Spread

    ... bad news for the world's oceans: Dead zones--areas of bottom waters too oxygen ... no better--there are now 405 identified dead zones worldwide, up from 49 in the 1960s--and the world's largest dead zone remains the Baltic Sea, whose bottom waters now lack ...
  • Zeroing in on Wi-Fi 'dead zones'

    Fi "dead zones" in large wireless networks that cover whole neighborhoods or cities is an expensive proposition. Pre ...
  • Zeroing In On Wi-Fi 'Dead Zones' To Inexpensively Fill Gaps In Wireless Networks

    Rooting out Wi-Fi "dead zones" in citywide wireless networks is an expensive proposition. The paucity of techniques for mapping areas that lack ...
  • Zeroing in on Wi-Fi 'dead zones'

    Rooting out Wi-Fi 'dead zones' in large wireless networks that cover whole neighbourhoods or cities is an expensive proposition. Pre ...
  • Brown scientist finds coastal dead zones may benefit some species

    ... waters, coupled with their predators' inability to survive in dead zones. The result: The quahog can not only survive, but in the absence ... said. "That was not something that we would have predicted from the conventional wisdom on dead zones or laboratory experiments alone." The quahog ...
  • Dramatic expansion of dead zones in the oceans

    ... leave ocean dwellers gasping for breath. Dead zones are low-oxygen areas in the ocean ... ocean by a factor of 10 or more. Whereas some coastal dead zones could be recovered by control of fertilizer usage ...
  • U-M researcher and colleagues predict large 2009 Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone'

    ... . Additional flooding of the Mississippi since May could result in a dead zone that exceeds the upper limit of the forecast ... , and the public better understand what causes dead zones. The models that generate the forecasts have been used to determine ...

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