Posted
7/18/2007 05:28:00 PM
by Douglas
Poisoning our world, one farm at a
timeA team of scientists from NOAA, the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, and Louisiana State University is forecasting that the “dead zone” off the coast of Louisiana and Texas this summer — an area of low or no oxygen which can threaten or kill all marine life in it — has the potential to be the largest since shelf wide measurements began in 1985, and significantly larger than the average size since 1990.
Hey
dolphins, maybe you should head south.
[Thanks, long-time reader!]