The Fertilizer Institute celebrates good news on hypoxia
The Fertilizer Institute celebrated the good news in the recently released Hypoxia Task Force's report to Cong...
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The Fertilizer Institute celebrated the good news in the recently released Hypoxia Task Force's report to Cong...
The size is smaller than predicted at the beginning of the summer, but is larger than the target goal set by the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force.
Experts say the slight decrease is largely due to low water flow on the Mississippi River and fluctuating ocean temperatures, rather than ongoing efforts to reduce harmful runoff.
Today, NOAA-supported scientists announced that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone”— an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life — is approximately 3,058 square miles. That’s almost two million acres of habitat potentially unavailable to fish and bottom species — nearly as large as the land area of Yellowstone National Park.
Low-oxygen section of the Gulf of Mexico is smaller than predicted this year