BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - In late July, Louisiana State University researchers found a hypoxic “dead zone” east of the Mississippi River, due south of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. A hypoxic dead ...

For the first decade he lived there, it hovered at close to 10 parts per million nitrate, the EPA’s limit. When it started to ...

The size of the dead zone peaks annually in July. The dead zone in the Gulf has been monitored for the past 32 years. It stretches from the mouth of the Mississippi River into Texas and is created ...