To many people, nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, is only known as a party drug or from the dentist. However, the nitrogenous substance also contributes significantly to global warming. As a greenhouse ...

The U.S. Senate has passed legislation reauthorizing and strengthening the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act (HABHRCA), a law designed to coordinate a government response to ...

Students Jorddy Gonzalez and Lily Tubbs retrieve the CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) sensor package after measuring dissolved oxygen at a regular stop on the annual hypoxia cruise while ...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-supported scientists recently announced that data reveal this year’s Gulf hypoxia, known as the dead zone, is 21% smaller than estimates predicted for ...

Brenda Tubaña and graduate student Alisson William Mariano de Camargo harvest sugarcane at Keith Dugas’ farm. Their work is part of a project that aims to reduce hypoxia in the Gulf. (Gabrielle ...

A dead zone, or as scientists prefer, a hypoxic zone, is an area in estuaries and coastal waters around the mouth of larger rivers entering the sea where the oxygen content is too low to support most ...

In various physiological and pathological contexts—including cancer, tissue ischemia, and stem cell homeostasis—cells are often exposed to a graded hypoxic continuum ranging from mild to moderate to ...

Annual forecasts for the “dead zone” in the northern Gulf of Mexico predict the area of water with depleted oxygen levels will be about average in size this year. What’s less certain is whether ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The annual forecast for the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has renamed ...

sediment swirling on Louisiana’s coast as it meets the Gulf of Mexico An aerial view of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, on June 7, 2024. Nutrients from throughout the Mississippi River basin wash down ...

Annual forecasts for the “dead zone” in the northern Gulf of Mexico predict the area of water with depleted oxygen levels will be about average in size this year. What’s less certain is whether ...