🌫️Daily Mail | ~ Gulf of Mexico's oxygen devoid 'dead zone' could hit near-record 8,000 square miles this year, shocking report reveals ~ |

• NOAA says the low-oxygen  area is likely to cover about 7,800 square miles 
• This is in large part due to high spring rainfall, carrying fertilizer downriver
• Nutrients feed algae, which die and decompose on sea floor, using up oxygen
• The record set in 2017 is 8,776 square miles (22,700 square kilometers)

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