Today, NOAA-supported scientists announced that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone”— an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life—is approximately 3,275 square miles. That’s more than 2 million acres of habitat potentially unavailable to fish and bottom species—larger than the land area of Rhode Island and Delaware combined.
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Source: Phys.org