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Scientists Predict Enormous Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico
They said their petition documented “how excessive nitrogen and phosphorous pollution in the Mississippi River Basin and northern Gulf of Mexico has caused a large zone of hypoxia (i.e., a low oxygen ...
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Gulf Of Mexico Dead Zone Grows To 6,000 Square Miles
The Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” will cover ... assistant administrator of NOAA’s National Ocean Service. The dead zone runs ...
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Humans, fish threatened by larger than average 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico. Here's what to know.
A recently released forecast predicted a larger-then-normal dead ... dead zone and the ongoing efforts to minimize its damage being carried out by the Interagency Mississippi River and Gulf ...
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Reaching Gulf dead zone reduction goals will cost $7B, study finds
New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching ...
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The Lower Mississippi River’s largest ecosystem restoration project got the federal go-ahead. The next hurdle: funding
A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...
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Purdue Gulf Hypoxic Zone Experts
The Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone is an area in the northern gulf that has too little oxygen to support most marine animals (hypoxic means oxygen deprived). The zone exists because of the flood of ...
Minnesota Daily7d
UMN study strives to tackle Mississippi’s plastic debris
A new study from the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering (CSE) found it can use sensors to detect ...
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Examining the economic impacts of aquatic dead zones
"The Gulf of Mexico algal bloom ... the values of reducing the dead zone in the Gulf as well as the values of improved upstream ecosystems in the Mississippi River Basin." In the next phase ...
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Concern About Mississippi River Levels, Even in Winter
(KMAland) -- Grain shippers and farmers are keeping an eye on the water levels in the Mississippi River. Mike Steenhoek, ...
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Here’s what it would cost to shrink the Gulf’s dead zone by 45%
A coalition of researchers from West Virginia University, Iowa State University and the Texas Soil and Water Research Laboratory has determined that decreasing nitrogen runoff from agriculture in the ...
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Reaching Gulf dead zone reduction goals will cost $7 billion, study finds
New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching ...