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D id you know there's a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico? No, we're not talking about the 1983 sci-fi horror film, or the early 2000s sci-fi TV series. This one is very much real.
The “dead zone” forms in the Gulf of Mexico every summer. It’s caused by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, largely from farm fertilizer and municipal runoff, which are carried down ...
This year, the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico entered into the top third of largest dead zones in records that go back 38 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
Officials in the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force, a partnership between state and federal agencies, have set a goal of reducing the five-year average dead zone size to less ...
To heal the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, we have to look north to Midwest farms There’s a massive area in the Gulf of Mexico that’s so low in oxygen, aquatic life can’t survive there.
Every year, the hypoxic “dead zone” materializes as a large area of nearly uninhabitable waters in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientist Nancy Rabalais, who has spent decades researching the area, is ...
This year, the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico entered into the top third of largest dead zones in records that go back 38 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
The “dead zone” forms in the Gulf of Mexico every summer. It’s caused by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, largely from farm fertilizer and municipal runoff, which are carried down the ...
Every year, water pollution from throughout the Mississippi River basin finds its way into the Gulf of Mexico, creating a “dead zone” in the summer. This year’s was the seventh smallest ...
Did you know there's a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico? No, we're not talking about the 1983 sci-fi horror film, or the early 2000s sci-fi TV series. This one is very much real. For ...
Did you know there's a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico? No, we're not talking about the 1983 sci-fi horror film, or the early 2000s sci-fi TV series. This one is very much real. For decades, ...