Forecast predicts biggest Gulf dead zone ever

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 04:00 in Earth & Climate

Scientists predict this year's "dead zone" of low-oxygen water in the northern Gulf of Mexico will be the largest in history - about the size of Lake Erie - because of more runoff from the flooded Mississippi River valley.

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