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07.27.2009 11:32 am

Gulf’s dead zone shrinks this year

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico measures 3,000 square miles this year, far less than what scientists expected the oxygen-starved region to clock in at.

Scientists had projected the dead zone to measure almost 8,000 square miles, but a…

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06.16.2009 2:42 pm

New report provides assessment of climate change impacts

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In what’s being hailed as the most authoritative assessment of climate change impacts in the U.S., a new report released Tuesday paints a rather gloomy future of extreme weather events, rising sea levels and crop failures.

The 190-gage report, conducted by an interagency team…

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