October 6th, 2010
Huge swathes of the ocean are dying and environmental writer Alanna Mitchell says humans are to blame. In her new book, Seasick: Ocean Change and the Extinction of Life on Earth, Mitchell takes her readers to one of the world’s nearly 500 dead zones – in the Gulf of Mexico, which is a wide expanse of the ocean that should be alive:



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