Sentences with phrase «largest of these dead zones»

The two largest of these dead zones occurred in 2002 and 2006.

Not exact matches

The Gulf of Oman plays host to the largest and thickest «dead zone» in the world, but scientists have struggled to study it intensively due to piracy and geopolitical tensions in the region.

The single largest number of dead zone reports came from the Hudson Valley (970) led by 597 dead zones in Sullivan County, according to the non-scientific study.

The turbid, nutrient - rich waters enter the Gulf of Mexico, where, every summer, one of the world's largest «dead zones» appears off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas.

Rabalais team - teaches biological oceanography at Louisiana State University, and continues her own research on Mississippi River - Gulf of Mexico interactions, forming the world's second largest dead zone.

NOAA - supported scientists found a large Gulf of Mexico oxygen - free or hypoxic «dead» zone, but not as large as had been predicted.

Eventually, the fertilizing effects of these nutrients in surface waters can fuel the growth of algae that ultimately suck most of the oxygen out of large patches of coastal waters, creating what are colloquially termed dead zones (see Limiting Dead Zondead zones (see Limiting Dead Zozones (see Limiting Dead ZonDead ZonesZones).

The low - oxygen waters of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico result in smaller shrimp, and a spike in large shrimp prices.

Last year's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico was the fourth smallest on record due to drought conditions, covering an area of approximately 2,889 square miles, an area slightly larger than the state of Delaware.

NOAA - supported modelers at the University of Michigan, Louisiana State University, and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium are forecasting that this year's Gulf of Mexico hypoxic «dead» zone will be between 7,286 and 8,561 square miles which could place it among the ten largest recorded.

ANN ARBOR — A University of Michigan researcher and his colleagues are forecasting a slightly below - average but still significant «dead zone» this summer in the Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary.

If it does reach those levels it will be the largest since mapping of the Gulf «dead zone» began in 1985.

Scientists just measured the largest dead zone ever recorded for the Gulf of Mexico, a whopping 8,776 square miles, massive enough to cover all of New Jersey.

In 2002, the Gulf's dead zone swelled to its largest size ever: 22,000 square kilometers, or a region spanning an area about the size of Massachusetts.

Known as the «sulfur pearl of Namibia,» this anaerobic species digests organic matter under low - oxygen (or no - oxygen) conditions that are caused by high rates of phytoplankton growth in the Benguela upwelling zone, and the subsequent decay of large masses of dead phytoplankton that have fallen to the seafloor.

It also acts on the front wheels with a variable pace, giving the car an unusually large and unpleasant «dead - zone» of steering angle right at the straight ahead, and then a tendency to dart towards an apex mid-corner that comes without a matching increase in required steering weight.

Bungie say the European Dead Zone is the largest place they've built by a «factor of two.»

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; any large object in the oceans «creates... ecosystems,» but the fact is that we should be much more concerned about the several enormous dead zones in the oceans than our energy problems, the latter which can be solved by weaning ourselves off our oil addiction; the fact is that the single most common object in the oceans today is plastic; the fact is that 90 % of the game fish of the oceans is gone.

; any large object in the oceans «creates... ecosystems,» but the fact is that we should be much more concerned about the several enormous dead zones in the oceans than our energy problems, the latter which can be solved by weaning ourselves off our oil addiction; the fact is that the single most commen object in the oceans today is plastic; the fact is that 90 % of the game fish of the oceans is gone.

However, if one considers the enormous increase of reactive nitrogen in our biosphere, due to the use of synthesized fertilizer and the burning of fossil fuels, its impact is not part of the analysis, even tough this increase shows up in the eutrophication (nutrient enrichment) of open waters all over the world, resulting in excess algae, in some areas causing large algae blooms (as where they are going to hold the sailing regattas during the Olympics), red tides and dead zone, as the 8000 square mile dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

And excess nitrogen fertilizer applied to the fields of feed corn grown to satisfy the world's livestock runs off into streams and rivers, sometimes flowing to coastal waters where it creates large algal blooms and low - oxygen «dead zones» where fish can not survive.

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

This summer's hypoxic zone («dead zone») is one of the largest measured since the team of researchers from Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and Louisiana State University began routine mapping in 1985.

The largest U.S. dead zones are in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Oregon.

Blooms also remove oxygen necessary for animal life from the water, creating massive «dead zones» — areas where the oxygen is so low that the water is inhospitable to life, suffocating large amounts of fish and crustaceans.

The dead zones were created in large areas of swirling water known as eddies, which form when two or more currents collide.

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The Gulf of Mexico dead zone is one of the largest in the world.

Scientists have identified a dead zone as large as Florida in the Gulf of Oman, which connects the Arabian Sea to the Persian Gulf.

But it is worth noting that though the Fish & Wildlife Dept. has ruled this fish kill a result of natural causes, the Gulf of Mexico has a severe problem with marine dead zones, as New Scientist explains: «Summer dead zones are common in the Gulf of Mexico, caused by the large amounts of fertiliser that get flushed down the Mississippi river, which triggers a dramatic drop in the amount of oxygen dissolved in the water.»

And while the general narrative has stayed the same — large nutrient inputs derived from fertilizer and pesticide run - off turn once vibrant ecosystems into barren, lifeless deserts — some new science suggests climate change will play a role in exacerbating an already dire situation, expanding the volume of dead zones in tropical oceans by up to 50 percent over the coming century.

The fear now is that increasing global temperatures and sea level rises could trigger ever stronger winds and — in turn — larger dead zones off the coast of Oregon and other states in the near future.

Hypoxia, or low oxygen levels, can create large dead zones that snuff out marine life and threaten dozens to hundreds of coral reefs worldwide, according to researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute or STRI.