Dead Zone Plan Adrift
By Richard Chasey, posted on April 7th, 2008 in Ecosystems, Water
Originally Published by Environmental Science and Technology
A new plan – scheduled for release in June – sets out to reduce the size of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone to about one-quarter of last summer’s size, or 5000 square kilometers, by 2015. However, it does not set targets for curtailing nutrient levels entering the Gulf and has left critics dubious.
NASA Daily Image
Panorama of the East Coast
This Jan. 29 panorama of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station, provides a look generally northeastward: Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor (bottom-center); western Lake Ontario shoreline with Toronto (left edge); Montreal (near center). An optical illusion in the photo makes the atmospheric limb and light activity from Aurora Borealis appear "intertwined." Image Credit: NASA