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Meaning Of Hypoxia In The Gulf Of Mexico

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Hypoxia is known as the illness where blood does not receive oxygen in a right way, this can affect the production of important cells, these cells take blood to tissues but with not enough oxygen, causing some problems and disease in the human and in an extreme way the dead. But there is another type of Hypoxia that is affecting our environment in some important ways, specifically in the ocean and this kind of problem is the one that is going to be explained in this essay. It is going to be communicate the meaning of hypoxia in the sea, what causes these problem, the effects and specifically in the Gulf of Mexico (Mississippi river). Also it is going to be about how to combat this problem because through the years this is grown up in very important …show more content…

This proptosis is reproduced in the ocean by some important nutrients like phosphorous and nitrogen, in some places of the world these nutrients are present in huge quantities because of the workforce of the man, this causes a massive production of this proptosis. Phytoplankton are eaten by small fishes but in these cases is difficult that the depredators can not be able to eat all the phytoplankton, some organisms are eaten and some others just die, both generating trash, the waste effects on the production of oxygen in water causing the problem known as hypoxia. Hypoxia is also known as the dead zone because of the low oxygen it is hard for plants and animals to reproduce or to live and by the time they die. These is more common when is summer, spring or a climate with …show more content…

This is because almost all the land of Mississippi is land of farms and the ones that are a lit bit far of Mississippi, as is known in the spring works use fertilizer to prepare their lands and some other chemicals to help the crops to grow. When it rains all does chemicals and fertilizers are taken to the river and that river precipitates in Gulf of Mexico. As it says above, does fertilizers and chemicals are the nutrients that phytoplankton need to be produced, as phosphorous and nitrite causing a massive production of phytoplankton and as consequence the low oxygen in the ocean because of the rubbish that is waste. These is not the only place in the world that suffer hypoxia, there are some other place such as Australia, New Zealand and some coast of Europe that are being affected because of the increase of

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