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Tracking nutrient pollutant in Chesapeake

Too much of a good thing can kill you, the saying goes.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

International study estimates ocean value

Professor Robert Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, is a co-editor of "Valuing the Ocean" a major new study by an international team of scientists and economists that attempts to ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lawsuits against EPA target nutrients in US waters

(AP) -- Environmental groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to force the federal government to curb an overdose of nutrients from farms and cities that end up in the nation's rivers, lakes and coastal waters. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Expanding dead zones shrinking tropical blue marlin habitat

The science behind counting fish in the ocean to measure their abundance has never been simple. A new scientific paper authored by NOAA Fisheries biologist Eric Prince, Ph.D., and eight other scientists shows ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Decline in dead zones: Efforts to heal Chesapeake Bay are working

Efforts to reduce the flow of fertilizers, animal waste and other pollutants into the Chesapeake Bay appear to be giving a boost to the bay's health, a new study that analyzed 60 years of water quality data has concluded. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Erasing history? Temporal cloaks adjust light's throttle to hide an event in time

Researchers from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., have demonstrated for the first time that it's possible to cloak a singular event in time, creating what has been described as a "history editor." In a feat of Einstein-inspired ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Researchers predict record Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' due to Mississippi River flooding

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Extreme flooding of the Mississippi River this spring is expected to result in the largest Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" on record, according to a University of Michigan aquatic ecologist and his colleagues.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gulf of Mexico dead zone severely impairs reproduction in Atlantic croaker

(PhysOrg.com) -- Atlantic croaker living in the large Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone" exhibit severe reproductive impairment with potential long-term impacts on the fish's population abundance, researchers from ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Forecast predicts biggest Gulf dead zone ever

Scientists predict this year's "dead zone" of low-oxygen water in the northern Gulf of Mexico will be the largest in history - about the size of Lake Erie - because of more runoff from the flooded Mississippi River valley.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Marine 'dead zones' tracked by new web-based map

New research by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, identifies more than 530 low-oxygen "dead zones" and an additional 228 sites worldwide ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Oceans where fishes choke

(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian marine scientists have expressed disquiet over the continued worldwide spread of large, dead zones in the ocean.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

No dead zones observed or expected as part of BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill: NOAA report

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a report today that showed dissolved oxygen levels have dropped by about 20 percent from their long-term ...

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created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Scientists find changes to Gulf of Mexico dead zone

NOAA-supported scientists have found this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be the fifth largest on record at 7,722 square miles - an area the size of New Jersey, near the upper limit of their projections, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 09, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Without oxygen, 'nothing goes' -- Marine biologists get to the bottom of dead zones

The behaviour of marine bottom dwellers can now, for the first time, be used to predict the development of so-called dead zones in the sea. Animals fight for what little oxygen there is in these zones - but ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Small fish exploits forbidding environment

Jellyfish moved into the oceans off the coast of southwest Africa when the sardine population crashed. Now another small fish is living in the oxygen-depleted zone part-time and turning the once ecologically ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast