Internet Use Triples in Decade, Census Bureau Reports
New data from the Department of Commerce’s U.S. Census Bureau show that 62 percent of households reported using Internet access in the home in 2007, an increase from 18 percent in 1997. “These data...
View ArticleNOAA Forecasts Predicts large "Dead Zone" for Gulf of Mexico this Summer
A team of NOAA-supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Louisiana State University, and the University of Michigan is forecasting that the “dead zone” off the coast of...
View ArticleNOAA: Smaller Than Expected, But Severe, Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico
Commerce’s NOAA-supported scientists, led by Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D. from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, found the size of this year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be smaller than...
View ArticleNew NOAA System Improves Ship Safety, Efficiency, on Lower Mississippi River...
Ship captains and pleasure boaters can now get free real-time information on water and weather conditions for the lower Mississippi River from a new NOAA ocean observing system that makes piloting a...
View ArticleSecretary Locke Announces Fishery Failure Determination in Gulf of Mexico
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today determined there has been a fishery disaster in the Gulf of Mexico due to the economic impact on commercial and recreational fisheries from the ongoing...
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