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Interactive: What is your state contributing to the Dead Zone?
Twelve Midwestern states agreed to reduce by 45 percent nitrate and phosphorus running into the Mississippi River and down to the Gulf of Mexico, where the nutrients contribute to an oxygen-deprived dead zone.
Browse this interactive to see how states are doing to control nitrate and phosphorus runoff, as well as gauge measurements at a number of spots along the Mississippi River.
TREADING WATER
Unfocused and underfunded, goal of cleaner water falters
By Erin Jordan
'Dead zone' worsens troubles for Louisiana shrimpers
By Erin Jordan
Wisconsin's Green Bay sees dead zones, too
By John Steppe
Indiana leading the way with cover crops
By Erin Jordan
Many Minnesota farmers disagree with buffer mandate
By Mark Lisowski
Interactive: The Gulf Dead Zone Through the Years
By Max Freund
Interactive: What is your state contributing to the Dead Zone?
By Max Freund
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