By early August, the “dead zone” was back: more than a cubic mile of oxygen-depleted water in which nothing — fish, crab nor shrimp — can survive. The grim news for the bay comes during a year when U.S. waterways have seen large dead zones and nuisance algae blooms, brought on in part by pollution from the land. In the Gulf of Mexico, this year’s swath of “hypoxic,” or oxygen-depleted, water covered 5,052 square miles, an area nearly the size of Connecticut. Toxic algae in Lake Erie last month forced nearly a half-million people in Toledo to temporarily stop drinking tap water. About the same time, scientists in Florida observed one of the biggest “red tide” algae blooms ever recorded, a 100-foot-deep column of poisonous microbes stretching nearly 90 miles off the state’s southwestern coastline. #Believers #OwnershipMyth #InheritanceMyth #Monopoly #BioWar #BiosphereCollapse #Earth4Sale #HostileTakeover #EndFaith #EndPrivateLand #EndPrivateCorps #EndPrivateBanking #EvolveOrDie #SentientIntelligence #OneEarth #GlobalGovernment #CouncilOfScience #InternationalSocialism #PublicLand #PublicBanking #PublicCorps #PublicManufacturing #NoPatents #OpensourceDesign #Utopia2000 #SentientCivilization #Choices #GrowUp #EndCapitalism #FractalWar #GlobalWar #DevelopEarthRight
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:14:27 +0000
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