Big Drought Makes for a Small 'Dead Zone'

New York Times: The dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, outlined in red, were far smaller than last summer`s when measured at the end of July. In yet another display of the inexorable interdependence of Earth's ecosystems, a bad summer for Midwestern farmland has turned out to be a good one for life in the Gulf of Mexico. Researchers from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium have found that this summer's hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico – the oxygen-devoid area of water colloquially known as the dead...

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