‘Dead Zone’ in Gulf Smaller, Study Finds
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The annual “dead zone” of oxygen-deprived water in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana and Texas coasts appears smaller but deeper this year. A scientist and researcher with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Baton Rouge said the zone, a seasonal area where marine life cannot survive, measured about 4,800 square miles this year. From 1993-97, the zone covered as much as 7,000 square miles of the Gulf bottom. This year’s zone was concentrated on the eastern and central Louisiana coast.
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