A ‘Dead Zone’ Grows in the Gulf of Mexico

Carol Kaesuk Yoon published in the New York Times, January 20, 1998 It can stretch for 7,000 square miles off the coast of Louisiana, a vast expanse of ocean devoid of the region’s usual rich bounty of fish and shrimp, its bottom littered with the remains of crabs and worms … Continue reading A ‘Dead Zone’ Grows in the Gulf of Mexico