2011 Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ could be biggest ever
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By , on July 18th, 2011 Leave a comment   Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Oil Spills, Uncategorized, Weather   , , , , , ,  

You know that oxygen-less zone that chokes life and forms every year in the Gulf of Mexico at the base of the Mississippi? Currently its about 3,300 square miles, or roughly the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Over the last 50 years, humans tripled the nitrogen levels in Gulf. Nitrogen is often . . . → Read More: 2011 Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ could be biggest ever

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Dead sardines in California had eaten toxic algae
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By , on March 14th, 2011 One comment   Conservation & Environment, Fish, Weird   , , , , , , ,  

Photo credit: Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times About 5 days ago, a huge school of sardines found their way into King Harbor in Redondo Beach, CA (near Los Angeles), used up all the oxygen, and died of suffocation. While the harbor tries to vacuum and scoop up the vast number of dead rotting fish . . . → Read More: Dead sardines in California had eaten toxic algae

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Scientists With Data Agree…A Deepwater Oil Plume Exists in the Gulf
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By , on August 19th, 2010 5 comments   Oil Spills   , , , , , , , , ,  

BP want’s to deny the presence of a deepwater oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico. The very oil plume both predicted by models published in 2003. The very oil plume that the massive amounts of dispersant injected at depth created to prevent oil from washing ashore. Even the government wants to deny the existence . . . → Read More: Scientists With Data Agree…A Deepwater Oil Plume Exists in the Gulf

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Dead Zones Are Here To Stay
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By , on October 26th, 2009 4 comments   Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government, Natural Disaster, New Research, Organisms   , , , , ,  

In 2008, I wrote that about a paper by Chan et al. in Science examining the anoxic zone emerging off the Oregon coast. It was the first study to quantitatively assess the condition. Chan et al. found that from 2000-2005, hypoxic (low oxygen conditions) extended to shallow water but always remained above 0.5 ml/L. In . . . → Read More: Dead Zones Are Here To Stay

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The Origins of Deep-Sea Fauna
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By , on October 5th, 2009 4 comments   Adaptations, Biology, Cephalopods, Conservation & Environment, Coral, Environmental Sciences, Geology, Organisms, Paleobiology   , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development. –Aristotle To understand the biogeography of the modern deep sea, we must examine the history of the ocean floor and the establishment of deep-sea fauna. The paleoceanography of the deep-sea is an account of intense fluctuations in temperature, oxygen, and circulation. In the past . . . → Read More: The Origins of Deep-Sea Fauna

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OMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of Despair
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By , on June 12th, 2009 2 comments   Adaptations, Environmental Sciences, Microbes, Organisms   , , , , , , , , ,  

It’s a hard knock life for deep-sea animals. It’s really cold in the winter. It’s really cold in the summer. It’s dark and wet…like Boston and Guinness. Your only source of food, what little you get, is far from fresh and may have passed through the rectum of more than one animal. If you are . . . → Read More: OMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of Despair

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