dead-zone

Pollution from places as far west as Montana and as far east as New York are transported down the Mississippi River and create a giant dead-zone off the coast of Louisiana each summer.

Regan Nelson: Oil Spill Commission: "Congress Must Act" Regan Nelson 2011

Pollution from places as far west as Montana and as far east as New York are transported down the Mississippi River and create a giant dead-zone off the coast of Louisiana each summer.

Regan Nelson: Oil Spill Commission: "Congress Must Act" Regan Nelson 2011

Finding time to see all six of them in a theater at one time would be a bit much, but revisiting them in 3D at one per year during the dead-zone of January/February is perfectly fine.

Scott Mendelson: Oh No! Billionaire Tyrant George Lucas To Offer Us the Choice To Watch the Star Wars Series in 3D?! Scott Mendelson 2010

The oxygen depleted areas, known as dead zones, began to appear in the early 1970s, also the time when chemical-fertilizer use was intensifying on Midwest farms, said Ms. Rabalais, a dead-zone expert.

Floods Raise Runoff Concerns Jeffrey Ball 2011

Lima, Peru, on the other hand, has its raw sewage flowing directly into the Pacific Ocean, along with other run-off, and the dead-zone there has become so large as to have cost effects on the local fishing industry (percentage of dietary protein consumption is falling etc.).

Matthew Yglesias » ARRA and Density 2010

As Jude worried through the logistics of releasing the dead-zone coordinates to the mechs without revealing them to BioMax—though the whole beauty of the location was its inhospitableness to orgs, making secrecy a bonus rather than a necessity—I watched the door, half expecting Zo to burst through with a last word.

Wired Robin Wasserman 2010

Just in time for the dead-zone Saturday news cycle.

Gramm Steps Down From McCain Camp - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Just in time for the dead-zone Saturday news cycle.

Gramm Steps Down From McCain Camp - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Henry, pointing down a waterside dead-zone, told me, in a mix of Alutiiq and English, "If I had a machine gun, I'd shoot every one of those white sons-of-bitches."

Stick your damn hand in it 2009

Henry, pointing down a waterside dead-zone, told me, in a mix of Alutiiq and English, "If I had a machine gun, I'd shoot every one of those white sons-of-bitches."

Stick Your Damn Hand In It 2009