dead zone

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Engine troubles aboard a federal research ship have forced the cancellation of this year's survey of the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico.

Worries continue over the low oxygen levels.

State officials and the federal government are at odds again over the Gulf of Mexico. The Fed wants Louisiana to put the area known as the "dead zone" in the Gulf back onto a national list of polluted water bodies.

Researchers say the low oxygen area in the Gulf of Mexico called the "dead zone" hasn't expanded as much as expected.

The Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" could more than double in size as the result of floodwaters that have poured out of the Mississippi River.  Oceanographers at Texas A&M say the "dead zone" could grow from 38-hundred-square miles to more than 94-hundred-square miles....