dead zone

growing food, sowing trouble

Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone
oh crap!

Fertilizer feeds humanity — and it’s destroying the Gulf of Mexico

4 min video
gulfing for air

Don’t look now, but the Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” is the biggest yet.
you're toxic

Climate change is wreaking havoc on our water
twice as nice

Do we really need to double food production by 2050? Actually … no.
Increasing Pollution, Dwindling Options
Industrial Agriculture

Parched Midwest could mean smaller Gulf dead zone
Pollution

How to kill the Gulf's dead-zone zombie
Animals

Chesapeake Bay dead zone could be the largest ever