Sentences with phrase «of the dead zone since»

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NOAA's National Ocean Service has been funding monitoring and research for the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico since 1985 and currently oversees the NGOMEX program, the hypoxia research effort for the northern Gulf which is authorized by the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act.

The size of the Chesapeake Bay's dead zone has been measured annually since 1950.

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

NOAA's National Ocean Service has been funding investigations and forecast development for the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico since 1990, and oversees national hypoxia research programs which include the Chesapeake Bay and other affected bodies of water.

The dead zone should just stop short of maximum range, since it's unlikely anyone is going to just nudge the stick to pause the game and choose a different gun.

The United States has trimmed excess fertilizer use since a peak in the 1990's, the scientists write, but runoff and releases from livestock operations still create big water problems, most notably the Gulf of Mexico «dead zone» resulting from nutrients washing from fields and livestock around the Mississippi River watershed.

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 number of marine dead zones has doubled every 10 years since the 1960s, which corresponds nicely with the increase of these industrialized farming technologies.

A handful of the 166 dead zones have since bounced back through improved management of sewage and agricultural runoff, but as fertilizer use and factory farming increase, we are creating dead zones faster than nature can recover.

But these dead zones have expanded dramatically, increasing by millions of square kilometres since 1950, roughly equivalent to the area of the European Union.

Dead Zones Have Doubled Every 10 Years Since 1960s According to the study, the number of marine dead zones — areas which are periodically or permanently starved of oxygen — has doubled every 10 years since the 1960s, with those along coastlines increasing in size and intensDead Zones Have Doubled Every 10 Years Since 1960s According to the study, the number of marine dead zones — areas which are periodically or permanently starved of oxygen — has doubled every 10 years since the 1960s, with those along coastlines increasing in size and intenZones Have Doubled Every 10 Years Since 1960s According to the study, the number of marine dead zones — areas which are periodically or permanently starved of oxygen — has doubled every 10 years since the 1960s, with those along coastlines increasing in size and intenSince 1960s According to the study, the number of marine dead zones — areas which are periodically or permanently starved of oxygen — has doubled every 10 years since the 1960s, with those along coastlines increasing in size and intensdead zones — areas which are periodically or permanently starved of oxygen — has doubled every 10 years since the 1960s, with those along coastlines increasing in size and intenzones — areas which are periodically or permanently starved of oxygen — has doubled every 10 years since the 1960s, with those along coastlines increasing in size and intensince the 1960s, with those along coastlines increasing in size and intensity.

Looking at water data for the past 60 years, scientists have determined that «the size of the dead zone in mid to late summer has decreased steadily since the late 1980s and that the duration... is closely linked each year to the amount of nutrients entering the bay.»

Marine dead zones spread exponentially, doubling every decade since 1960 Marine «dead zones» double every decade Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com August 14, 2008 The number of marine dead zones have doubled...