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
This year’s dead zone should be twice the usual size, Louisiana State oceanographers R. Eugene Turner and Nancy Rabalais wrote in “2017 Forecast: Summer Hypoxic Zone Size, Northern Gulf of Mexico.” ...
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Poincaré wave–induced mixing in a large lake
A 10,000-km² hypoxic ‘dead zone’ forms, during most years, in the central basin of Lake Erie. To investigate the processes driving the hypoxia, we conducted a 2-yr field campaign where the mixing 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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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 ...