Drought led to massive 'dead zone' in Lake Erie
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 07, 2015 - Lake Erie just can't catch a break. The lake has experienced harmful algal blooms and severe oxygen-depleted "dead zones" for years, but now a team of researchers led by Carnegie's Anna Michalak and Yuntao Zhou has shown that the widespread drought in 2012 was associated with the largest dead zone since at least the mid-1980s. Until now, the size of the dead zone each summer and the factor ... more
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