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New York Times: The dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, outlined in red, were far smaller than last summer`s when measured at the end of July.
In yet another display of the inexorable interdependence of Earth’s ecosystems, a bad summer for Midwestern farmland has turned out to be a good one for life in the Gulf of Mexico.
Researchers from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium have found that this summer’s hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico – the oxygen-devoid area of water colloquially known as the dead......
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Big Drought Makes for a Small ‘Dead Zone’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 2nd, 2012
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