Thursday, August 3, 2017

The biggest ever "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is the size of New Jersey

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Wednesday that this year’s “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is the largest ever measured. Stretching from the coast of Louisiana at the Mississippi River Delta westward to the shores of Texas, the area of severe hypoxia — when the water is so depleted of oxygen […]

source http://verandi.org/the-biggest-ever-dead-zone-in-the-gulf-of-mexico-is-the-size-of-new-jersey/

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