NOAA announces largest-ever Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’

Mongabay
Aug 7, 2017, 5:12 pm93 pts
Last week, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced the largest-ever recorded low-oxygen “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico. At 22,730 square kilometers (8,776 square miles) the area is the size of the U.S. state of New Jersey. The dead zone is primarily the result…

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