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The dead zones: oxygen-starved coastal waters.
After the great Mississippi River flood of 1993, the hypoxic (or low-oxygen) "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico more than doubled its size, reaching an all-time high of over 7,700 square miles in July of 1999. Scientists attribute the Gulf of Mexico dead zone largely to nutrient runoff from...
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2000
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1637951/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10706539 |