Essay On Environmental Hypoxia

What is Environmental Hypoxia and how it affects our lives? Environmental hypoxia is a case where an environment affected by low rate of oxygen in which could cause severe bad health condition to the organisms living around it. Environmental hypoxia refers to a condition where there is low or depleted oxygen in a water body. In some cases, a water body which is hypoxic causes dead zones. These dead zones are areas that could not sustain life due to hypoxic environmental condition. While it sounds more natural as it is caused by algae. However, it is mostly the action of humans that trigger the environmental condition of hypoxia.

Environmental hypoxia was mostly happened in water. Environmental hypoxia is mostly caused by nutrients pollution in a water environment. As humans used fertilizer on either their crops, golf fields, or their plants, the

The Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone is located in the northern Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana and Texas which was first documented in 1972. “The 2013 area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico, commonly known as the hypoxic zone or "Dead Zone," was 15,120 square kilometers (5,800 square miles), which was smaller than predicted”, the United States Environmental Protection Agency says. United States researchers conclude that strong winds in the Gulf of Mexico contributed to moving the nutrients throughout the river and mix them together. The size of the 2013 hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico is about double the measured size of the zone in 2012, it is due to the summer drought conditions in the Mississippi River Basin that reduced nutrient outputs into the Gulf of Mexico happened. In 2013, the zone of oxygen-depleted bottom-water was above both the long-term average and also the five-year average. In this case of Gulf of Mexico, hypoxia affects the spatial distribution of marine animals. This includes Atlantic croaker and brown