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'Flounder jubilees' are nothing new Bo Petersen, The Post and Courier - Sunday, July 25, 2010 |
Myrtle 'dead zones' stir worries Bo Petersen, The Post and Courier - Sunday, July 25, 2010 Scientists look for triggers in heavily developed area |
Downsizing The Gulf Of Mexico's Dead Zone Valerie Brown - 21 July 2010 Water Pollution: New model suggests larger cuts in nitrogen pollution needed to shrink the Gulf's dead zone |
Dead Zone in Gulf due to BP oil spill, say experts - 2010-07-12 |
Gulf Oil Spill Gulf Dead Zone Double Environmental Disaster? Erna Buffie - Jun 4, 2010 |
Gulf Oil Spill - Size of Spill Not the Only Environmental Threat Erna Buffie - Jun 14, 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Deep Sea Corals - NOAA |
Missouri Corn Stalk Testing Benefits the 'Dead Zone' in Gulf Public News Service - MO - July 8, 2010 |
Oil And Dead Zone Threaten Gulf Mexico PRLog (Press Release) - Jul 13, 2010 The Gulf of Mexico fights the strangle hold of two different threats a dead zone and the BP oil spill. |
Dead Zone in Gulf Linked to Oil Jessica Marshall - Fri Jul 9, 2010 08:21 AM ET, DISCOVERY NEWS Oxygen-starved waters that have persisted for more than a month in the Gulf of Mexico are likely due to the BP oil spill, researchers say. |
Video: Low-oxygen dead zone found on seafloor off Alabama coast Ben Raines, Press-Register - Sunday, July 04, 2010, 5:00 AM |
Gulf Coast Dead Zone Set to Grow David Biello reports (with narration by Christie Nicholson), SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - July 4, 2010 Scientists predict a bigger than average dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this year. |
Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Jealous of Gulf Of Mexico Oil Blowout Publicity John DeCock, President, Clean Water Action - July 2, 2010 05:50 PM |
Dead zone in gulf linked to ethanol production Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - Tuesday, July 6, 2010 |
Gulf of Mexico dead zone predicted to be the size of New Jersey this year By Elizabeth Weise, USA Today - Jun 29, 2010 |
Dead zone in Gulf could be as large as New Jersey this year Andrea Thompson, OurAmazingPlanet - June 28, 2010 Dead zone: An underwater area with little or no oxygen that has plagued Gulf waters for many years will be larger than usual this year. |
Tale of two dead zones: Gulf's larger, Bay's smaller Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - June 28, 2010 |
Gulf Dead Zone Grows as No-Fishing Area Expands Charles Cooper, CBS News - June 28, 2010 5:32 PM As oil from the Deepwater Horizon explosion spreads across the Gulf of Mexico, the government has expanded the no-fishing area near Florida's panhandle. |
Bay 'dead zone' forecast smaller this summer By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - Scientists differ over import of water quality in reviving Chesapeake's depleted fish catch |
A Dead Zone Was Already in the Gulf By Ed Wallace - June 2010 The BP oil spill is making it even worse. But few people paid much attention to this 25-year-long environmental disaster |
Oil is the real 'green' fuel, not wind or solar or biofuels ARIZONA DAILY STAR Jonah Goldberg Tribune Media Services | - Saturday, June 19, 2010 |
Natural gas from Gulf well could create oxygen-poor 'dead zone' Fort Worth Star Telegram - Posted Friday, Jun. 18, 2010 |
Oil spill ecological disaster that could worsen dead zone Robert Pore - 4 June 2010 |
Gulf oil spill could widen, worsen dead zone Mark Fellows, University Relations, Mark.Fellows@ur.msu.edu, Cell: (517) 819-5437, Office: (517) 884-0166; Nathaniel Ostrom, Zoology, Office: (517) 355-4661, ostromn@msu.edu - June 04, 2010 |
Oil and the Dead Zone by Lauren Schenkman with reporting by Robert F. Service and Erik Stokstad - May 19, 2010 |
Scientists begin to assess how Gulf 'dead zone' and oil spill might interact By Sharon Schmickle - Thu, May 20 2010 3:07 pm |
Gulf coast oil slick headed for Grand Isle, Louisiana By Joel Achenbach, Washington Post Staff Writer - Sunday, May 23, 2010 |
The lady and the water John DeSantis Senior Staff Writer , The Houma Courier - Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 6:01 a.m. |
Underwater oil plumes could create new 'dead zone' in Gulf Clement Sabourin (AFP) - May 17, 2010 NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana Giant plumes of oil floating deep in the Gulf of Mexico could create a new 'dead zone' of oxygen-depleted waters unfit for marine life and wreak environmental damage that will take generations to overcome, scientists warned Monday. |
Oil Plumes Spark Fears of Dead Zones Rachel Maddow Show - May 17,2010 MSNBC |
The Gulf, Before the Spill By Bill Marsh - May 8, 2010, NY Times, Week in Review Even before the recent oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico was hardly pristine. The Gulf, like almost all large bodies of water, must balance industry and recreation, fishing and development. |
How to Clean Up the Oil By RP Siegel - May 14, 2010 |
Gulf Wildlife 'Dead Zone' Keeps Growing By Jennifer Viegas - May 7, 2010, MSN NBC An over 7,000-square-mile wildlife |
Giant Plumes of Oil Found Forming Under Gulf of Mexico By JUSTIN GILLIS - May 15, 2010 , NY Times Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. |
Factbox: Oil spill adds to environment insults on US Gulf Coast Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent, REUTERS, WASHINGTON - Fri May 7, 2010 10:56am EDT |
How Will the Gulf's Dead Zone Impact the Oil Spill? AnimalTourism - Friday, April 30, 2010 The Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico may collide with an area already bedeviled by environmental catastrophe, the infamous Dead Zone--an area of essentially no life or oxygen. So what happens when an inexorable oil slick meets and an undead patch of water? |
COASTAL BAYS Oil is the Gulf's most unwelcome guest Cristy Layton - May 11, 2010, Delmarva Daily Times |
Pigs modified to excrete less phosphorus win limited approval in Canada. Anne Minard - March 30, 2010; National Geographic News Gene-Altered "Enviropig" to Reduce Dead Zones? |
First-Ever Animals Found Living Without Oxygen in Marine Dead Zone Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York - 04. 8.10; Science & Technology |
Environmental groups seek fix for Gulf dead zone Nikki Buskey , Staff Writer, Houma Courier - Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 12:05 p.m. HOUMA Farmland runoff is creating an environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and state and federal agencies should strengthen agricultural-pollution regulations to rectify that, environmental groups say. |
Regulators Ramp Up Plans For Nutrient Limits In Mississippi River States - March 17th; Inside EPA |
Midwest flooding could affect local area John DeSantis ; Senior Staff Writer - Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 1:15 p.m. HOUMA Major flooding under way in the Midwest could impact some local communities as soon as this week, federal officials said. |
News from Congressman Ron Kind: REPRESENTING WISCONSINS THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Leah Hunter; Leah.hunter@mail.house.gov; 202-225-5506 - Friday, March 19, 2010 House Votes to Protect Mississippi River, Passes Kinds Bill; Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act to Reduce Sedimentation, Improve Water Quality |
Ethanol is not the fuel of the future for U.S. Gerry Calhoun - March 22, 2010 , Tennessee Voices |
The Case Against Biofuels: Probing Ethanols Hidden Costs C. Ford Runge - 11 Mar 2010; YALE environment360: Opinion Despite strong evidence that growing food crops to produce ethanol is harmful to the environment and the worlds poor, the Obama administration is backing subsidies and programs that will ensure that half of the U.S.s corn crop will soon go to biofuel production. Its time to recognize that biofuels are anything but green. |
Pay now and pay later Karen Hosler - March 12, 2010; BALTIMORE SUN The longer we wait to deal with water pollution, the higher the cost. |
House Backs Effort to Combat Algal Blooms NICK WILSON - Friday, March 12, 2010Last Update: 12:21 PM PT |
Films provide food for thought Beth Dooley, Special to the Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN - March 10, 2010 - 2:30 PM |
Dead dolphin washes ashore in Pascagoula Jeff Lawson - 11 March 2010; WLOX |
The N2 Dilemma: Is America Fertilizing Disaster? A Grist Special Series , 'The Soil is Bleeding' Tom Philpott - 23 Feb 2010 9:47 AM, www.grist.org |
Land conservation signup is set PERRY BEEMAN , pbeeman@dmreg.com - February 28, 2010 , Des Moines register Farmers and landowners this year will get the chance to sign up for a key federal conservation program for the first time in four years, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told a Des Moines audience Saturday. |
Dead pigs used to investigate 'dead zones' Victoria Gill - Mar 4, 2010, Science reporter, BBC News There is a recent and rather macabre addition to the marine biologist's toolkit. Scientists in Canada are using the bodies of dead pigs, diverted from the butcher's shop, in their undersea laboratory. |
World's Largest Dead Zone Suffocating Sea James Owen in Stockholm - March 5, 2010, National Geographic News This story is part of a special series that explores the global water crisis. For more clean water news, photos, and information, visit National Geographic's Freshwater Web site. |
Manure becomes pollutant as its volume grows unmanageable David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post Staff Writer - Monday, March 1, 2010 At a $13 million plant outside Seaford, Del., chicken giant Perdue turns tons of manure into fertilizer, but added plants might strain the firm. (Mark Gail/The Washington Post) |
Rulings Restrict Clean Water Act, Foiling E.P.A. CHARLES DUHIGG and JANET ROBERTS - February 28, 2010, New York Times, David Walter Banks for The New York Times The mouth of Avondale Creek in Alabama, into which a pipe maker dumped oil, lead and zinc. A court ruling made the waterway exempt from the Clean Water Act. |
Dumping on manure, chemical fertilizer - March 1, 2010; Baltimore sun Which is worse for the nation's environment - animal manure or chemical fertilizer? |
Governor Culver's office publicly opposes "Manure in Water" bill -- HF 2324 Natalie Snyders, 515-282-0484, natalie@iowacci.org; Kristin Schaaf, 515-255-0800, kristin@iowacci.org - 2/23/2010; Iowa CCI More than 100 Iowans call on legislative leadership to stand up for clean water and "Kill the bill" |
EPA Budget Signals Good News for the Mississippi River - February 2010 ; River Currents Newsletter |
Guest column: Farm drainage proposal based on sound science BILL NORTHEY: agri@IowaAgriculture.gov; WENDY WINTERSTEEN: wwinters@iastate.edu - February 26, 2010 ; Des MOINES REGISTER The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and Iowa State University have been looking at ways to reduce nutrient loading in our state's waterways for the past 22 years. After these years of study, it's time to move forward on a pilot project now. |
EPA Budget Signals Good News for the Mississippi River - February 2010 , River Currents Newsletter |
Iowa CCI: Governor Culver's office publicly opposes "Manure in Water" bill -- HF 2324 IowaPolitics.com, Natalie Snyders, 515-282-0484, natalie@iowacci.org Kristin Schaaf, 515-255-0800, kristin@iowacci.org - 2/23/2010 More than 100 Iowans call on legislative leadership to stand up for clean water and "Kill the bill" |
Nasty, nurturing nitrogen Holly Moeller - February 23, 2010 The uncomfortable truth about humanity and the nitrogen cycle |
Series Intro Where does our food come from? - |
Guest column: Don't rush redesign of farmland drainage DES MOINS REGISTER - February 17, 2010 |
Follow the countys lead Editorial - Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010, TAMPA BAY newspaper |
Our Voice: Stop studying Great Lakes woes and use grants to start addressing problems Bay City Times staff - February 07, 2010, 5:58AM Organizations eager for a slice of the $475 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative pie showered the U.S. Environmental Agency with about 1,500 proposals. |
Fight seen over ban on winter spreading of manure PERRY BEEMAN pbeeman@dmreg.com - February 14, 2010 , DES MOINES REGISTER |
Environmental group pushes back against HGS Walter Pierce - Thursday, 11 February 2010, The Independent Weekly, http://www.theind.com |
Don't back down: Protect our water THE REGISTER'S EDITORIAL , Des Moines Register - FEBRUARY 11, 2010 |
State ag chief holds Q&A WHITNEY PANDIL-EATON Staff Writer wpandileaton@minotdailynews.com - January 31, 2010 |
Meat eater's balancing act Diane Toroian Keaggy - 01/20/2010, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH |
Major coastal restoration financing starts, slowly, in Barack Obama's 2011 budget plan Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune - February 01, 2010, 7:24PM Susan Poag/The Times-Picayune archiveThe biggest chunk of the Louisiana Coastal Area money is expected to be spent on building wetlands with material dredged from the Mississippi River during routine maintenance dredging.The dredge Borinquen was photographed on the Mississippi River in October, near the entrance to the Harvey Lock. |
Groups gauging Ohio River's pollution levels James Mayse, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky. - 26 January 2010 |
Funding for Louisiana coastal restoration in Obama's budget is a milestone: An editorial Editorial page staff, The Times-Picayune - February 03, 2010, 6:29AM Louisiana's fight to save its shrinking coastline will get vital help in the Obama administration's proposed 2011 budget, which includes $35.6 million for larger coastal restoration projects. Pete Souza/The White HousePresident Barack Obama. |
Task Force Eyes New Measures Of Mississippi River Nutrient Reductions John Heltman - Jan 4, 2010 An EPA-led task force on reducing nutrient pollution in the Mississippi River Basin and Gulf of Mexico is considering diversifying its progress indicators beyond just measuring the size of the Gulfs so-called dead zone and has identified six projects and programs that could serve as models for reducing nutrient pollution throughout the watershed. |
Reaction swift and sour to EPA water rules Michael Peltier, The News Service of Florida and Posted by Aaron Deslatte - January, 15 2010 3:47 PM , ORLANDO SENTINEL TALLAHASSEE The electronic ink had yet to dry Friday on proposed new federal water quality standards for Florida before combatants chimed in. |
Nitrogen, the other greenhouse gas Jessica A. Knoblauch - Thu, Jan 14 2010 at 5:22 PM EST The often-overlooked global warmer is worse than CO2, and its numbers are increasing. |
Earth's growing nitrogen threat, It helps feed a hungry world, but it's worse than CO2. Mark Clayton Staff Writer of The Christian Science Monitor - January 12, 2010 Nitrogen fertilizer being used on an Illinois farm. |
EPA Proposes Freshwater Nutrient Limits for Fla., a National First TARYN LUNTZ , Greenwire - January 15, 2010 , New York Times U.S. EPA proposed pollution standards for nutrients in Florida waters, the first such proposal for any state. |
King Corn and Big River follow food from seed to harvest and beyond Straus Newspapers - January 14, 2010 |
Film highlights Iowa farming practices MATTHEW WILDE, matt.wilde@wcfcourier.com - Monday, January 11, 2010 9:45 pm, WCFCourier.com, The Cedars Valley homepage |
EPA Proposes Standards to Protect Floridas Waters: Action would decrease amount of phosphorus and nitrogen pollution Enesta Jones, jones.enesta@epa.gov, 202-564-7873, 202-564-4355 - 01/15/2010 WASHINGTON The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing water quality standards to protect peoples health, aquatic life and the long term recreational uses of Floridas waters, which are a critical part of the states economy. In 2009, EPA entered into a consent decree with the Florida Wildlife Federation to propose limits to this pollution. The proposed action, released for public comment and developed in collaboration with the state, would set a series of numeric limits on the amount of phosphorus and nitrogen, also known as nutrients, that would be allowed in Floridas lakes, rivers, streams, springs and canals. |
Copenhagen: Look to the Sea? David Biello - December 10, 2009, Scientific American The oceans may be largely overlooked at the climate conference in Copenhagen, but they will bear the brunt of climate change. David Biello reports |
Theory for dead zone off Oregon Coast Keely Chalmers - December 17, 2009 at 9:21 AM, kwg.com, news channel, Portland, Oregon EUGENE, Ore. -- After 7 years of research, a team of OSU scientists believe they know, in part, whats causing the dead zone off the Oregon coast. |
Aggresive federal efforts could test bay group David A. Fahrenthold - December 18, 2009 , The Washington Post |
OSU scientists believe global warming contributing to growing dead zone off Oregon coast Shelby Bateson - December 20, 2:53 PM, Green Technology Examiner |
A voice for Chesapeake Bay has a grim message Rex Springston - December 28, 2009 , Richmond Times-Dispatch Howard R. Ernst calls himself "staunchly moderate," but he has this radical notion that Chesapeake Bay polluters should clean up their own mess. |
Can we save the Gulf of Mexico? Dr. Larry McKinney - December 24, 2009 at midnight , Corpus Christi Caller-Times With the many major initiatives occurring since President Obama took office, the interagency Ocean Policy Task Force may have been overlooked. |
Farmers fear fallout from film, activists PHILIP BRASHER and DAN PILLER, pbrasher@dmreg.com - January 6, 2010, DES MOINES REGISTER Iowa farmers are taking an uncomfortable turn in the spotlight. |
