Average ‘Dead Zone’ for Gulf of Mexico Predicted (Video)

Outlook incorporates multiple hypoxia models for the second year

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 9, 2016 Scientists forecast that this year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone – an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life – will be approximately 5,898 square miles or about the size of Connecticut, the same range as it has averaged over the last several years.

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