The 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico, an area on the seabed…
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The 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico, an area on the seabed with too little oxygen to support fish, shrimp, crabs and other forms of marine life, is nearly the largest on record this year, about 8,000 square miles, researchers said this week.The problem of hypoxia is a downstream effect of fertilizers used for agriculture in the Mississippi
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