1.0 link 19336 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nellie-b/the-dead-zone-youre-payin_b_19336.html No, not the Stephen King novel. It's no work of fiction, but a growing horror just the same. Every spring, polluted waters from the Mississippi watershed drain into the Gulf of Mexico, bringing a feast of nitrates for algae, which literally take up all of the available oxygen in the process, killing any bottom-feeding sealife and driving away any other critters capable of moving, e.g. commercially attractive fish and seafood. The "dead zone" grows every year, and is now the...

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