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The Gulf of Mexico’s ‘dead zone’ could nearly double in size this year

Agricultural runoff from the Mississippi River, as well as human and animal waste, fuel the growth of algae blooms each year in the Gulf of Mexico, which deplete marine life of oxygen — and sometimes lead to massive die-offs…. Source

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