A 'dead zone' is growing in the Gulf of Mexico. It's now the size of New Jersey
A 'dead zone' off the Gulf coast is larger than NOAA predicted. The massive area poses danger to marine life, and recovery ...
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Scientists Predict Enormous Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico
Eugene Turner and Nancy Rabalais wrote in “2017 Forecast: Summer Hypoxic Zone Size, Northern Gulf of Mexico.” Even during a usual year, the dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico is the largest in ...
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Scientists expect large ‘dead zone’ in Gulf of Mexico caused by excessive nutrient pollution
Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium are forecasting that this year’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic “dead” zone will be between 7,286 and 8,561 square miles ...
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Gulf 'dead zone' suffocating fish and livelihoods
Six of the nine stations revealed such oxygen-deprived, hypoxic water ... One of the major dead zones is in the Gulf of Mexico. It is 8,000 square miles, nearly the size of New Jersey, according ...
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Water here affects water elsewhere
As a result, we contribute to Lake Pepin filling up with sediment at an accelerated rate and the hypoxia zone down in the Gulf of Mexico. WATER – “Downstream Impacts” Everyone lives ...
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Louisiana coastal restoration agency ponders hypoxia plan, river study
Hypoxia reduction remains a critical component of CPRA efforts, aiming to decrease the size of the Gulf’s “dead zone,” an area of low oxygen that can kill fish and other marine life. The Gulf Hypoxia ...