Earlier this month, NOAA forecast that this summer in the Gulf of Mexico an area the size of Delaware and Connecticut combined would have so little oxygen that marine life flees from it or dies in it. In 2017, this “dead zone” was the size of New Jersey, the largest one ever recorded. Read more >

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Reviving the Gulf Dead Zone Is Worth it: Our New Report Shows the Benefits of Action
Rebecca Boehm, Economist
June 29, 2020 1:09 PM EDT

Moraine Park Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Photo: Frank Schulenberg/CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia
Partnerships to Protect Fragile Mountain Ecosystems
Aaron Piña and Jill Baron, UCS Science Network, UCS
October 17, 2016 5:14 PM EDT
If you are a cow, Colorado is an ideal place to be. Colorado’s climate is sunny and dry, and these characteristics have helped make the state fourth in the nation for numbers of cattle in feedlots. Weld County, just east of the Colorado Front Range mountains, is the fifth most livestock-rich county in the United States—beef and dairy, swine, sheep, chickens—and produces as much waste as 24.5 million people. Read more >