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A 'dead zone' is growing in the Gulf of Mexico. It's now the size of New Jersey
A dead zone occurs at the bottom of a body of water when there isn't enough oxygen in the water to support marine life. Also known as hypoxia, it's created by nutrient runoff, mostly from over ...
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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 ...