Items Tagged with 'Gulf of Mexico'

More than a thousand barges – many of them likely carrying corn or soybeans – can now resume their trip along the Mississippi River after traffic was stopped due to a cracked bridge near Memphis, Tenn., according to a statement released by the U.S. Coast Guard.

The most cost-effective strategy to reduce the amount of nitrogen and phosphorus flowing into the Gulf of Mexico would focus on improving practices in the Lower Mississippi sub-basin, a new Economic Research Service report says.

New approaches to nitrogen management, developed at land-grant universities, are changing the paradigm for farmers, prompting them to use less fertilizer, save money, and help reduce the toxic algal dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes and other bodies of water.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2017 - The “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is bigger than it’s ever been, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said today.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 2, 2017 - U.S. crude oil production increased for the second consecutive month in November 2016, the first time this has occurred since early 2015...