Researcher says Gulf dead zone bigger than ever


	Researcher says Gulf dead zone bigger than ever

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                                        Researcher says Gulf dead zone bigger than ever                </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080723/ap_on_sc/dead_zone"><P>
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                                By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press Writer                                </SPAN>
                                <EM class="timedate">Wed Jul 23,  5:39 AM ET</EM>
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                        HOUSTON - A "dead zone" in the <SPAN id="lw_1216805968_0" class="yshortcuts">Gulf of Mexico</SPAN> off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever before, with marine life affected for hundreds of miles, a scientist warned.                        
                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080723/ap_on_sc/dead_zone"><P>"It's definitely the worst we've seen in the last five years," said Steve DiMarco, a Texas A&M University professor of oceanography who for 16 years has studied the <SPAN id="lw_1216805968_1" class="yshortcuts">Gulf of Mexico dead zone</SPAN>, so named because the oxygen-depleted water can kill marine life.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080723/ap_on_sc/dead_zone"><P>The phenomenon is caused when salt water loses large amounts of oxygen, a condition known as <SPAN id="lw_1216805968_2" class="yshortcuts">hypoxia</SPAN> that is typically associated with an area off the Louisiana coast at the mouth of the <SPAN id="lw_1216805968_3" class="yshortcuts">Mississippi River</SPAN>. The fresh water and salt water don't mix well, keeping oxygen from filtering through to the sea bottom, which causes problems for fish, shrimp, crabs and clams.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D645AD50-765C-4FB5-BE1E-8C26AEF0EB6E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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