For 36 years scientists have monitored the size of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone or hypoxic zone, which forms every spring. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists are forecasting this summer’s hypoxic area or “dead zone” — an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and other marine life — [...]
For 35 years scientists have monitored the size of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone or hypoxic zone, which forms every spring. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists are forecasting this summer’s hypoxic area or “dead zone” to be approximately 6,700 square miles, larger than the long-term average measured size of 5,387 square miles [...]
Every year for 34 years scientists have monitored the size of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone or hypoxic zone, which forms every spring. Last year’s dead zone was approximately 5,780 square miles, the size of Connecticut. This year NOAA scientists are forecasting this summer’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone will be approximately 7,829 square [...]
This summer’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone is forecasted by federal scientists to be approximately 8,185 square miles, or about the size of New Jersey, making it the third largest the Gulf has seen. According to NOAA, dead zones are hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas in the world’s oceans and large lakes, caused primarily by nitrogen, phosphorus [...]
