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.

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