Our old planet has started another chapter.....
NEWPORT, Ore. — His hand on a toggle switch and his eyes on a computer screen, Oregon State University graduate student Anthony Kirincich "flew" an array of scientific instruments up and down through the waters of the Pacific, searching for the low levels of oxygen that mark the return of the Dead Zone.
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