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Researchers say tornado threat rises as Gulf hurricanes get larger

September 8th, 2009

From Green Right Now Reports

The increase in size and frequency of large hurricanes that make landfall from the Gulf of Mexico also is resulting in more tornadoes that form from the storms, according to a new report from researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

“As the size of landfalling hurricanes from the Gulf of Mexico increases, we’re seeing more tornadoes than we did in the past that can occur up to two days and several hundred miles inland from the landfall location,” James Belanger, a doctoral student in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech and lead author of the paper, said in a statement.

Fertilizers expected to create large 2009 dead zone in Gulf of Mexico

June 19th, 2009

FROM GREEN RIGHT NOW REPORTS:

The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to grow this year to between 7,400 and 8,400 square miles, a size roughly equivalent to the state of New Jersey, according to researchers at the University of Michigan.

That means the zone will be among the top three largest on record; the largest oxygen-starved zone reached 8,484 square miles in 2002.

Oysters at the edge of calamity

June 1st, 2009

By Shermakaye Bass
Green Right Now

The world is not our oyster. At least, not according to The Nature Conservancy, which presented a pioneering survey on the state of global shellfish to the International Marine Conservation Congress in Washington, DC in late May that uncovered some startling statistics.

Conducted by Nature Conservancy scientists from five continents over a five-year period, the first-ever report states that 85 percent of the world’s oyster reefs have disappeared over the last 150-odd years, largely due to over-harvesting, poor water quality and degraded environments. The complex habitats, also called oyster beds by some, are vital to the world’s bays and estuaries. And as go the reefs, the report warns, so, potentially, go much larger, interlocking marine ecosystems.

2008 Gulf Of Mexico Dead Zone Could Be Largest Ever

June 23rd, 2008

By Barbara Kessler
Flooding along the Mississippi River and its tributaries is creating a secondary environmental problem that’s not so secondary. As record-breaking runoff carrying sewage and fertilizers heads to the Gulf of Mexico, researchers and federal officials fear it will cause the largest algal bloom ever in the coastal waters.

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