New Jersey-sized dead zone envelops Gulf Coast

Oh wait, that headline is based on a blog post I wrote 2 years ago.  Doh!

Our ongoing efforts to wipe out sea life may lack the media-grabbing pizzazz of a Titanic oil spill, but it does not lack the punch.  See, for instance, "Nature Geoscience study concludes ocean dead zones "devoid of fish and seafood" are poised to expand and "remain for thousands of years").  Or watch coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson's 18-minute TED talk, "How we wrecked the ocean":

If you have the stomach for it...