Louisiana activists say the East Grand Lake river diversion will smother part of the Atchafalaya Basin, creating new land for fossil energy development in the process.
The oxygen-depleted “dead zone” that forms each year in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana and Texas is forecast to cover about 4,155 square miles this year
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Scientists forecast the low-oxygen zone will be around 4,100 square miles this summer, despite federal efforts to reduce nutrient runoff from fertilizer use on Midwest farms.