Jun 18, 2016
The annual Dead Zone from fertilizer runoff is getting ready to hit the Gulf of Mexico
The annual Dead Zone from fertilizer runoff is getting ready to hit the Gulf of Mexico
❝ The Gulf of Mexico teems with biodiversity and contains some of the globe’s most productive fisheries. Yet starting in the early 1970s, large swaths of the Gulf began to experience annual dead zones in the late summer and early fall. This year’s will likely be nearly a third larger than normal, about the size of Connecticut, according to a recent report from the Louisiana Universities Marine…
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