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Scientists have been monitoring a growing area of low oxygen that’s killing much of the sea life off the coast of Oregon and Washington states.
There are about 200 oxygen depleted regions, or dead zones, in the world’s oceans. They occur when nutrients from run-off ? fertilizers and manure to name a few ? make it into major water bodies and cause oxygen depletion. But a dead zone off the coast of the Pacific Northwest has scientists looking at a different culprit ? climate change. Host Steve Curwood turns to Professor Jack Barth of Oregon State University to learn more about what might be behind the Northwest dead zone.