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Gulf of Mexico's 'dead zone' much smaller this year

by Associated Press
| August 4, 2020 1:03 PM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tropical weather stirred up the Gulf of Mexico, reducing this year’s dead zone off Louisiana’s coast to the third-smallest ever measured, the scientist who has measured it since 1985 said Tuesday.

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