This summer's Chesapeake Bay "dead zone" is expected to be significantly smaller than the long-term average, according to a forecast released today by researchers from the University of Michigan, Chesapeake Bay Program, University ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 22, 2023
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A new look at the history of water quality in the Chesapeake Bay sheds light on how the estuary has responded to nutrient reduction efforts and why improvements have remained a major challenge. University of Maryland Center ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 30, 2023
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Researchers have created a map of oceanic "dead zones" that existed during the Pliocene epoch, when the Earth's climate was two to three degrees warmer than it is now. The work could provide a glimpse into the locations and ...
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Jan 4, 2023
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A dead zone in the ocean is as bad as it sounds, and having no information about dead zones' scope and path is worse. However, scientists at Michigan State University (MSU) have discovered a birds-eye method to predict where, ...
Planetary Sciences
Nov 21, 2022
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Oxygen-starved ocean "dead zones," where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human agricultural and industrial activity. Trying to predict ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2022
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Tropical coastal ecosystems are among the most biodiverse areas on Earth. They're also on the front lines of effects caused by human activity. That's why it's becoming increasingly important, especially as human populations ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 4, 2022
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In a long-abandoned village in the UN buffer zone that divides Cyprus, an endangered curly-horned wild sheep offers hope not only for wildlife but that bitter ethnic divisions might slowly be healed.
Ecology
Feb 2, 2022
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Hundreds of miles south of Chicago, decomposing algae in the Gulf of Mexico makes life so perilous for fish they swim away—or die.
Environment
Dec 23, 2021
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The Chesapeake Bay Program and its partners, including the University of Michigan, released information today on the state of the 2021 Chesapeake Bay "dead zone." While last year's dead zone was the second smallest observed ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2021
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Spain's environment ministry on Thursday unveiled a roadmap for regenerating the stricken Mar Menor, one of Europe's largest saltwater lagoons that is slowly dying from agricultural pollution.
Ecology
Nov 4, 2021
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