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Mapping America’s Largest ‘Dead Zone’
In a decades-long crisis, marine life has suffered as oxygen periodically dwindles in waters along the Gulf Coast.
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#mangroves
Mangroves absorb storm surge: flexible, dense, deeply rooted.
Studies after the 2004 tsunami found far lower mortality & damage where mangroves were intact
We’ve cleared ~50% since 1950—so what comes next is the cost of removing nature's buffer
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