RSS Feed
New York Times: For over a quarter-century, the marine ecologist Nancy Rabalais, the executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, has worked to understand and to spread awareness of the so-called dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Shrimpers trawling the Gulf of Mexico first began noticing a decline in their catch rates in the 1950's. By the time Dr. Rabalais entered the scene in 1985, fishermen and scientists knew that marine life there was suffering recurring, devastating bouts of death by......
Read Complete Article at Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS News Feed
Tracking a Worrisome ‘Dead Zone’
Posted by New York Times: Rachel Nuwer on October 15th, 2012
Posted in Water Conservation