Dead Zones: Industrial Agriculture versus Ocean Life - Climate Capitalism
Aug 12, 2020 The largest to date, in 2017, extended over 22,700 square kilometers. Paradoxically, the dead zone is caused by too much life, by excessive plant and bacterial growth that leads to oxygen depletion in bottom waters. Each year, the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers carry about 1.6 million tonnes of dissolved nitrogen into the Gulf of Mexico.
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