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" at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico continues to kill off or drive out aquatic life — and this year it's grown even bigger, scientists working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have found.
This is the 12th largest the dead zone has ever been in nearly four decades of record keeping, with the largest ever being observed in 2017, at over 8,700 square miles. "The area of bottom-water hypoxia was larger than predicted by the Mississippi River discharge and nitrogen load for 2024, but within the range experienced over the nearly four decades that this research cruise has been conducted," Nancy Rabalais, a professor at Louisiana State University and co-chief scientist of the dead zone survey, said in anDead zones are caused by nutrient pollution, which spurs an overgrowth of algae far beyond sustainable levels.
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