A Dead Zone Forms

追加: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]A farmer in Iowa applying fertilizer in April is physically connected to the floor of the Gulf of Mexico in August.

[00:00:07]The fertilizer washes into the streams and then sweeps down the river into the Gulf of Mexico, where it feeds a bloom of algae that smothers an area the size of New Jersey. There's no oxygen, no fish, just silence on the seafloor. We think of the continent as divided, farms here, oceans there. The water doesn't see this division. It just flows downhill, taking everything it picks up into the Gulf.