NOAA: Larger-Than-Average 'Dead Zone' Expected for Gulf of Mexico
June 04, 2020
June 04, 2020
WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news release:
NOAA scientists are forecasting this summer's Gulf of Mexico hypoxic area or "dead zone" - an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and other marine life - to be approximately 6,700 square miles, larger than the long-term average measured size of 5,387 square miles but substantially less than the record of 8,776 square m . . .
NOAA scientists are forecasting this summer's Gulf of Mexico hypoxic area or "dead zone" - an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and other marine life - to be approximately 6,700 square miles, larger than the long-term average measured size of 5,387 square miles but substantially less than the record of 8,776 square m . . .