The low-oxygen Gulf ‘dead zone’ could be three times the size of Rhode Island; here’s why
Mark Schleifstein | NOLA.com 3 June 2021 The 2021 summertime "dead zone" along the Louisiana and Texas coast lines — an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and bottom-living organisms — is predicted to cover 4,880 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico's water bottom, according to NOAA scientists. That's [...]