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.
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August 22nd, 2008
By Barbara Kessler
In yet another indictment of industrial farming methods and another threat to fish, researchers are reporting vast growth of ocean “dead zones.” Once rare, dead zones are multiplying and now total more than 400 around the world’s coastal waters, putting stresses on marine life by upsetting the underwater food chain, according to an August article in the journal Science.
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Related Topics: · Dead Zones, Farming, Fertilizer, Fish
May 7th, 2008
By John DeFore
While polar bear populations face the challenge of habitat melting beneath their feet, organisms that call water home appear to be grappling with a stranger difficulty: More and more areas of the ocean have oxygen levels too low to sustain them.A report just published in the journal Science asserts that, as tropical oceans warm, regions of low oxygen content are expanding.
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Related Topics: · Dead Zones, Oceans, Science journal
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.