Gulf of Mexico dead zone shrinks
Gulf of Mexico dead zone shrinks By Kate Spinner, Sarasota Herald Tribune, kate.spinner@heraldtribune.comMonday, July 27, 2009 at 2:45 p.m.The vast oxygen-starved dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico shrunk by about half its typical size this year, but scientists are not celebrating. The dead zone covered about 3,000 square miles of sea floor this [...]