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Report: Ocean 'Dead Zones' Increasing in US

By David KnowlesSep 6th 2010 – 4:36PM
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(Sept. 6) -- The nation's waterways are fast becoming a wasteland. Released Friday, a joint report by the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science finds that the number of so-called "dead zones" in U.S. waters is 30 times...

Background on oregon coast

The Oregon Coast is a region of the U.S. state of Oregon. It runs generally north-south along the Pacific Ocean, forming the western border of the state; the region is bounded to the east by the Oregon Coast Range.

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