Even during a usual year, the dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico is the largest in North America and the second largest in the world, according to data collected by environmental groups. The ...

An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite image of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, where 'dead zones' can ...

Of the 500 dead zones in the world, the area in the northern Gulf of Mexico is the second largest human-caused coastal hypoxic area – a zone in the ocean with a concentration of oxygen low enough to ...

One of the major dead zones is in the Gulf of Mexico. It is 8,000 square miles, nearly the size of New Jersey, according to the marine consortium's annual measurement completed in July.

(CNN)-- It's thousands of square miles wide, virtually devoid of oxygen and it has been blamed for an increase in shark attacks: the Gulf of Mexico ... "Dead Zones" are being discovered across the ...

The Gulf of Mexico accounts for more than 40% of US' seafood. According to NOAA, the dead zone costs the country's seafood and tourism industries $82 million per year. This is because fish swim ...