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New York Times: As the Midwest reeled from catastrophic flooding this spring, scientists warned of devastating consequences for the Gulf of Mexico this summer.
They feared that chemicals and waste rushing down the Mississippi would result in the largest-ever oxygen-depleted "dead zone" measured in the gulf since monitoring began in 1985.
New results are in: on Monday, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration announced that a team of scientists mapping the dead zone had just returned from a......
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Did a Storm Distort Mapping of a Gulf ‘Dead Zone’?
Posted by New York Times: Joanna M. Foster on August 2nd, 2011
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