Posted in environment on Sep 1st, 2012
The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone will likely be smaller this year due to drought conditions throughout the Mississippi River watershed. A team of NOAA-supported scientists is predicting that this year’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone could range from a low of approximately 1,197 square miles to as much as 6,213 square miles. The wide [...]
Posted in sustainability on Jul 27th, 2011
With heavier than normal snow and rain events this year it’s not surprising that the Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay would be the end recipents of extra runoff. Ironically, a couple of centuries ago the extra influx of natural nutrients would have been a boon for these productive estuaries. But today that extra runoff [...]
Posted in pollution on Jun 1st, 2010
In another sad reminder of the undeniable, intrinsic link between our economy and our ecology, recent projections (from Housing Predictor) that the ongoing Gulf oil leak could erode coastal property values in Louisiana and Mississippi by 30 percent. Via NuWire Investor Tweet
Posted in pollution on May 21st, 2010
BP PLC was leasing the Deepwater Horizon rig when it exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and triggering the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. As the Associated Press reports: “thick, sticky oil crept deeper into delicate marshes of the Mississippi Delta, an arrival dreaded for a month since the crude started spewing into [...]
Posted in pollution on Dec 21st, 2009
(Reprinted from the Environmental News Network): Back in 2003’s Global Environment Outlook Year Book, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) declared the ocean’s “dead zones” the world’s top emerging environmental challenge. Now a recent report by UNEP says the number of dead zones, or low oxygenated areas in the world’s oceans, may have now grown [...]
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