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Humans, fish threatened by larger than average 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico. Here's what to know.
A recently released forecast predicted a larger-then-normal dead zone in the Gulf ... of Mexico via the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin. The excess nutrients lead to an overgrowth of algae ...
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Tracing nitrogen pollution in the Gulf
“The northern Gulf of Mexico faces significant environmental challenges, including nutrient overloading, harmful algal blooms, and oxygen depleted ‘dead zones’,” Wang said. “These issues are primarily ...
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Examining the economic impacts of aquatic dead zones
"The Gulf of Mexico algal bloom is a really big problem," Elbakidze said. "Nitrogen from agriculture gets into the downstream systems and results in excess nutrients in those waters, which in turn ...
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Toxic Red Algae Plague Florida’s Three Most Populated Counties
Toxic red algae blooms in Florida have spread to metropolitan counties ... bout of it in Florida could be related to Hurricane Irma's churning of water in the Gulf of Mexico, which caused upwelling of ...
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Temperature dependence of an estuarine harmful algal bloom: Resolving interannual variability in bloom dynamics using a degree-day approach
Observations of harmful algal blooms (HABs) of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense in an estuary over multiple years were used to assess drivers of their spatial and temporal variability. Nauset ...
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What viruses make up a red tide bloom?
"We know that viruses play an important role in the dynamics of harmful algal ... a severe bloom in 2021. The red tide event was the worst in recent memory along Florida’s Gulf Coast, with ...