Sentences with phrase «summer dead zones»

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.»

There's nothing else on that date right now, possibly because late August is a summer dead zone.

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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.

Experts say such cuts could shrink the so - called dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, which becomes inhospitable to wildlife almost every summer.

In summer, the Chesapeake Bay becomes a «dead zone.»

The anoxic portion of the Chesapeake Bay dead zone is expected to be 0.27 cubic miles in the early summer, growing to 0.28 cubic miles in the late summer.

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.

Today, we need look no further than the New Jersey - size dead zone that forms each summer in the Mississippi River Delta, or the thousand - mile - wide swath of decomposing plastic in the northern Pacific Ocean to see that this «dilution» policy has helped place a once flourishing ocean ecosystem on the brink of collapse.

Dead zones occur throughout the world and persist through the summer until plunging water temperatures — and often hurricanes — mix oxygen back into the depths each fall.

Prairie, together with other conservation practices already on farms, advocates claim, has the potential to reduce the massive runoff of nutrient pollution mostly from Midwestern farms that flows down the Mississippi River and forms a gigantic «dead zone» in the Gulf of Mexico every summer.

Right now we're in a bit of a dead zone between the blockbuster summer season and awards season, but that's going to change once Snowden arrives in the middle of September as we start to move into October.

When: February 6th Why: It's never a good sign when a movie gets postponed, especially one as big as «Jupiter Ascending,» but what really set off alarm bells was the decision to move it from a prime summer release date to the dead zone of February.

Right now we're in a bit of a dead zone for theatrical release, s with most movies released this month being neither good enough for a summer blockbuster release or hopeful enough for a debut during awards season.

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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.

Although slightly smaller than last summer's edition, the Gulf dead zone is still touted by some as the largest in the United States and costs $ 82 million annually in diminished tourism and fishing yield.

Vast quantities of excess fertilizers wash off fields each year, polluting huge watersheds; as just one example, each summer an oxygenless «dead zone» spreads from the mouth of the Mississippi River, fueled by excess nitrogen from upstream.

This creates a dead zone each summer in the Gulf that can reach the size of New Jersey.

No, it has nothing directly to do with the BP oil spill, but it won't help things... Scientists supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have just announced that the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone — that's the Gulf Dead Zone to you and me, where there's so little oxygen that it doesn't really support life — is likely to be of above average size this summer, though it won't set a new record (phzone — that's the Gulf Dead Zone to you and me, where there's so little oxygen that it doesn't really support life — is likely to be of above average size this summer, though it won't set a new record (phZone to you and me, where there's so little oxygen that it doesn't really support life — is likely to be of above average size this summer, though it won't set a new record (phew).

The dead zone typically begins in the spring and persists into the summer.

As Matthew quipped in a recent post, stories about the Gulf of Mexico's (in) famous dead zone have a way of turning up on TreeHugger, as if on cue, every summer.

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.»

At the least, both firms will want to resolve the situation before the summer dead - zone starts.