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Will Biodegrading Oil And Natural Gas From BP Gusher Expand The Gulf Dead Zone?
Satellite view of the Gulf oil spill as of 12 June 2010 (partial excerpt). Image credit:SkyTruth, via NASA.So far, I have read only unsupported speculation about the Gulf 'Dead Zone' potentially expanding as a result of increased biological oxygen demand (BOD) from oil and natural gas. It is plausible - assuming phytoplankton blooms are not reduced somehow by the presences of so much oil and gas - but it would be pretty hard to model how oil, gas, and plankton ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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