[wolfcreek]

Dead Zone in Gulf largest since 1985.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gulf-of-mexico-dead-zone-oil

[thackney]

While the area of the BP oil spill overlaps some parts of the “dead zone,” Rabalais said, “It would be difficult to link conditions seen this summer with oil from the BP spill in either a positive or negative way.”

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