The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality hopes to improve water quality throughout the state with a new water ...

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Efforts to reduce nutrient runoff into the Gulf are largely outlined in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Hypoxia Task Force Action Plan. Long-term, its goal is to reduce the dead zone to about ...

The Cost of Renewable Fuel Incentives: A Two-Part Policy Analysis Series Part I: The Consumer Costs and Climate Impacts of the RFS Media Inquiries For general and media inquiries and to book our ...

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service unlawfully discounted the harms to threatened and endangered wildlife of ...

Millions of tons of seaweed currently floating in the tropical Atlantic Ocean could soon make its way toward the U.S., according to researchers following the phenomenon.

A sweeping look at the vanishing American prairie and two crime novels set in Minnesota are this week’s offerings to our readers.

The Gulf of Mexico dead zone is a complex environmental issue, but it is also a solvable problem. We can avoid the ecological and economic damage that results from allowing algae to choke the Gulf.

NOAA-supported scientists announced today that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” — an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life — is approximately 6,705 square ...

Gulf of Mexico dead zone now the size of New Jersey This year, the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico entered into the top third of largest dead zones in records that go back 38 years, the National ...

Scientists have announced that the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone"—where there is so little oxygen that the ocean becomes unsurvivable—is now the size of New Jersey. Around 6,705 square miles of ...