Efforts to eliminate waterway dead zones and algal blooms nationwide have focused on pollution from manure.
The bacteria suck up the oxygen, creating dead zones, which are exactly what they sound like they are.
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So bad that the cross streets of Chelsea could be renamed dead zones.
In others, they are installing playful prompts, like trivia games, to get workers talking in traditional conversational dead zones, such as elevators.
Low oxygen (hypoxic) areas known as dead zones, where most marine life cannot survive, can result in the collapse of some ecosystems.
Dead zones in the sea, unknown until recent decades, are rapidly proliferating.
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Speaking of cell phones, airports are huge facilities that, I've found, often have cell phone "dead zones" -- even for major carriers like Verizon.
There are more than 400 such dead zones throughout the world.
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Each day, 300 million gallons of polluted mine water enters Pennsylvania streams and rivers, turning many of them into dead zones unable to support aquatic life.
It all works offline too, which should extend battery life and keep that navigation humming even while puttering about in data dead zones without racking up international roaming charges (take that, Google).
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Nancy Rabalais, executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and an expert on dead zones who didn't participate in the study, said its findings are consistent with climate change scenarios she projects for the upper Mississippi River basin, where flooding caused high algae concentrations two years ago.
They have also resulted in severe environmental consequences globally due to nutrient mismanagement, including the great U.S. Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and, more recently, massive plumes of nutrient runoff in areas like the Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, which are creating huge marine dead zones.
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