US corn biofuels will expand Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’: scientists

March 10th, 2008 | by jeff | | Post to NewsCloud »

A boost in corn production will worsen the Gulf’s so-called “dead zone,” an area with so little oxygen that sealife suffocates, said Simon Donner, a geographer at the University of British Columbia in Western Canada.

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