Source: Janet McConnaughey, NEW CANAAN ADVERTISER, 8/4/20

 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. Marine ecologist Nancy Rabalais said the area where there’s too little oxygen to support marine life covers about 2,116 square miles (5,480 square kilometers) this year — but the five-year average remains much larger.

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