The Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, explained

[@jwilson-oz6zu]

I used to live near that watershed in Indiana! The region has lots of native tree species and many many small farms with fences that support diverse (albeit suppressed) ecosystems of plant and animal life. In recent decades, many of the small farms are being bought and/or operated by larger companies that seem to care less about maintaining the natural beauty and instead are removing fences and trees for maximum value extraction. In addition, they are continuing an ongoing trend of draining wetlands / lowlands that hold water on the land year round. Ironically, the destruction / draining of these wetlands also means that in dry periods they must pump additional water from the ground for their crops. I don't know how to help these issues directly, but please support local co-ops of people who actually care about the land they're working and not just the dollars it brings.

[@heloiselebon5837]

Hey Joshua! What is the name of this watershed/region in Indiana? :) Would like to conduct a little research about this phenomenon for a uni work!

[@jwilson-oz6zu]

@@heloiselebon5837 41.194775389996266, -86.0312381925082 Just southwest of Warsaw, IN.

[@element1935]

that channel is going to get big dont give up

[@brybry6805]

U get me big I give up

[@solk.posner7201]

Perú defending it's guano from Spain and the UK. 🇵🇪🤙🏽 I hope my compatriots can learn from this and improve with permacultures in the Andes and prevent Amazon deforestation.

[@yvettemeza3384]

Thank you for your reply I am responding to your reply based on those heartfelt words. I heard about Amazon deforestation and I thought to myself that is a great loss as is to the great redwood groves. I love seeing those trees and I'm a big fan of the Lorax of which is a fairly old book but still has a rhyme, " I quickly invented the super ax hacker that chopped of four tress in one whacker.... and the newer models are so horrifying to see in action because of the wild life and birds living in them but this article touches home on how the environment is under a Grove with ferns and other plant life that creates a covering. Nevertheless it's destroyed in these fires but we all know here in California that this state doesn't belong to it's native people and our legacy won't be forgotten. This world needs people to share the goods here with it's maker only taking what's needed. Greed has no place on this Earth and I pray for the trees akways

[@tinatom5627]

Thank you! I was looking for a concise but we;; rounded video to help explain dead zones to my science students.

[@Grist]

Glad to help!

[@DearProfessorRF]

This is fascinating. I am from Florida and all our coasts are "Dead Zones." I light of hope here...

[@briankeevan8134]

I’ve fished offshore in this so-called “Dead Zone” from the MS River Delta, all the way to TX for 25+ years. I see acres upon acres of baitfish, (Hardtails, Menhaden, Mullet, etc) from May-October, year after year. I recommend you take a charter out of Port Fourchon or Venice, LA & see this highly populated “fish zone” for yourself.

[@voiceofreason2674]

Yes their map is pretty inaccurate the dead zone is real but it’s further west and it’s offshore. The Louisiana coastline is the most productive saltwater fishery in America

[@willgiddings9941]

You are completely ignorant of what a dead zone is, and this is anecdotal evidence you are presenting.

[@JosePineda-jn8jk]

Water filtration to remove some of the bio load and ferts in the water before it hits the gulf?

[@tomconner5067]

Water hyacinths in a retention canal or ditch surrounding the farmers fields will draw most of the Nitrites or Nitrates (I always mix them up?) And if you have a fish pond, the water from the pond can be used to irrigate the crops and this lovely natural source of ammonium nitrate/nitrite? Whatever , anyway fish turds are a great alternative renewable source of nitrogen and can be applied with a dripper system that irrigates the soil at night after the dew forms.

[@PartyCrewCoolPAD]

Tribes of Europa brought me here because I frequent the "badlands" thanks 👍

[@dannyalaniz7506]

This channel will blow up!! This gives me vox vibes Amazing channel!

[@fabioamaral5847]

What if we cover crops after harvest just nearby the rivers. The area will be smaller and probably the results will not be as good as the example showed but still better than now. And it is cheaper and faster

[@twinkyd.9166]

If you guys come up and research the Illinois river in East Peoria you will open a can of worms that needs to be opened. TY

[@nateb4543]

I think this is fixable via another method. Emulating terra preta by adding biochar to farmlands. That acts as a long term (hundreds of years) sponge for nutrients and minerals leading to less fertilizer washing away and more efficient use.

[@louhillen7071]

how much damage is the weed killer being dumped in lakes and being carried in to gulf by rivers

[@yvettemeza3384]

Good question. I will second that question. An along with it if like to ask is there a way to reverse a lake so poluted by dumping toxins, Mercury sites, sulpher and cynotoxins because she is so beautiful and it's ashame

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Water harvesting earthworks on contour stabilised by trees or hedgerows combined with cover crops would be useful in hydrating soil; creating wind breaks and capturing runoff. These strategies would also reduce erosion, seasonal flooding and recharge shallow aquifers. Agricultural subsidies should be link to watershed management, soil creation and biodiversity. Improving efficiency by stacking functions and security by having a range of agricultural outputs.

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

Cont. Also what if we grew bamboo to create Mardi gras rafts to plant floating mangrove to shade, absorb nutrients, build up newly flooded areas and provide platforms for sacrificial pollution absorbing shellfish. Communities could have river parades of these rafts being towed and anchored in the dead zone starting with anchoring them to build up soil in newly flooded areas.

[@Eyephonestories]

I saw once, feeding cows seaweed helped with the some of the natural gases and then all helped with the fertilizer he made

[@jomich923]

Venice La is some of the Best Fishing in North America. The things people buy into is scary

[@TruthSeeker2019]

nice coverage ive been tellin ppl for yrs...keep it going

[@bobwelch8317]

Use humate to reduce the need for chemical fertilizer. Increases yield by up to 30 percent and is 100 percent organic

[@LisaBeergutHolst]

Might reduce nutrient runoff, but it's still a non-renewable resource requiring intensive mining resulting in damage to other ecosystems

[@Bozemanjustin]

Permaculture! Permaculture has already solve these problems years ago, they don't even use fertilizer, their soil quality just goes up every year. We should be making biochar like crazy. We could do to the Mississippi basin what was done to the Amazon. If anybody didn't know this, the entire Amazon basin soil was man-made. That's why it grows so well You can create those same conditions on your farm. You can dig pits to catch water and fill them up with logs and plant topsoil right over the top, you don't even have to water them because the pits are all full of water all the time. You can keep water on your land as long as possible by changing the lay-of-the-land so it flows back and forth back and forth and has more of a chance to soak into the ground. We could also not rely on as much of industrial set-up, if we simply went back to allowing people to have chickens and a cow on their own land, even if you live in a suburb. If victory Gardens were good for everyone's yard during world war II why are they no longer useful now? The answer is the same, they always want you to be dependent on the system. They're terrified of people being self-sufficient, because that's when people really understand that we don't actually need government, the smallest government possible to keep commerce going is all that's necessary

[@jesbsnrn]

incrwdible stuff

[@tomahawkmissile241]

need to add trees along canals to get the washed away deposits it a man made volcano waiting to happen might even help when fertilizer is sucked out of trucks from tornados

[@emie9858]

Good video

[@voiceofreason2674]

This Map of the dead zone isn’t quite accurate. It’s much thinner along the Louisiana coast but it extends much further west into a thick blob almost all the way down to Corpus Christi

[@geoffreyvoeth3993]

excellent narrator wish more people could speak so well on their videos.

[@luvnKK]

Why does this feel like a giant ad

[@patricialongo5746]

It's coercive. Nobody wants to save Texas or Florida.

[@Michael19841]

Walken’s best movie.

[@thomasprogar3143]

soy and corn is animal feed and is everywhere, reducing meat and dairy consumption can help (and let's get rid of ethanol)

[@kidswithstyle5666]

SO GOOD

[@MIKOOL13]

Or we can just herd more animals and create better soil and grasslands instead of giant mono crop fields that have to be flooded with chemical fertilizer because the soil depletion of giant mono crop fields.

[@cudatom9290]

What the heck does a horse pulling a roller have to do with fertilizer??

[@davidcanatella4279]

simple, no fertilizer or plowing no dead zone. Next. Agriculture is the greatest destruction of the ecology ever. Giving it up is more important than giving up petroleum

[@kananabulfazliChannel]

🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Mükemmel paylaşim Super ☆✋

[@cat157]

Entering ecological dead zone. Adding report to databank

[@veganevolution]

This is absurd. All of that land is for raising animals, and we do not need manure to grow. Research Ian Tolhurst has huge gardens with nothing but a little decomposed plant material. It's the animals.

[@TylerDWard]

there are also deep water vents that release stuff there

[@scottmurphy3912]

Just have American oil companies add oxygen pumps like in fish tanks and farms pay a fertilizer tax plus they can donate to underwater plants instead. Plus if mix the oxygen less area with oil spills or to salad dressing lol

[@christiank.7505]

Uhmm contacts?

[@kananabulfazliChannel]

Deyerli 🌿🌷🌿gozel 🌿💠🌿qelbli🌿🌷🌿 bacim🌿💠🌿 Coxx🌿🌷🌿 qesey🌿💠🌿 paylasma🌿🌷🌿 ugurlar🌿💠🌿 olsun🌿🌷🌿 bol🌿💠🌿 sanslar 🌿🌷🌿👍😎

[@geterdone4936]

Vertical farming fixes all of these problems. Why is the government not spending billions of dollars on that?

[@SuspiciousFace]

Because vertical farming is a load of BS. Not that hard to understand, really.

[@lov3_h3r64]

Mhm al right

[@madcannagrow2833]

LOOK UP NOTILL GARDENING

[@backwoods_wildlife4200]

Make better decisions we have to live in this planet

[@patricialongo5746]

Some people depend on the chaos and disaster. We work for them. They're our betters.

[@patricialongo5746]

We'll be doing nothing as a nation. To translate from the Texan-. "Huh, what? Lol. '

[@Damlafamilyshow]

Like👍dostum👍👍👍🤗😝😝😊✔️🔔

[@mypostureisjustfine]

lmao it's been so memed to high heaven, I can never take it seriously when americans compare areas to football fields

[@darkerorc224]

Great video, but maybe dont be disrespectful towards woman of the past who did have their dowries based on their father's farm manure. It sounded quite tacky. Thanks for the well researched video though!

[@ironmagma]

How is it disrespectful? He just stated a historical fact.

[@LisaBeergutHolst]

@@ironmagma Maybe the flippant tone and use of multiple poo emojis?

[@ironmagma]

@@LisaBeergutHolst sounds like the most factual possible tone to me.

[@tomconner5067]

Wrong, all of our coasts are not dead zones, in fact, none are dead zones.

[@deejudah1461]

Yes they do

[@LisaBeergutHolst]

*[citation needed]*

[@zeke5491]

America’s sewer outlet

[@JustinWayneDawg]

Mediocre content

[@dulynoted2427]

Trump helped this along allowing dumping

[@samtheman4202]

Then u would have to re plow it

[@joshuabradshaw5270]

Great information, poor perspective. 🤷