‘Up to 200 and rising’ ocean dead zone areas around the world in 2006

There could now be as many as 200 ocean dead zone areas around the world, and without action to change intense factory farming and the use of fertilizers this number could keep on rising.

Source: United Nations Environment Programme – Further Rise in Number of Marine ‘Dead Zones’  - Professor Robert Diaz Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Date: 19 October 2006