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University of Michigan: NOAA Forecasts Average-Size Gulf of Mexico Summer 'Dead Zone'
June 04, 2022
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 4 (TNSres) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:

A team of scientists including a University of Michigan aquatic ecologist is forecasting a summer "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico of 5,364 square miles, about average for the 35-year history of the measurements.

The forecast is lower than last year's measured size and slightly lower than the five-year average measured size of 5,380 square miles. The 202 . . .

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