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WYPR (NPR) - Maryland Morning Radio Program (Wed 25 Jul, 2012)
Not Stephen King's Dead Zone
Staff quoted: Don Boesch
We had plenty of rain over the weekend, but besides that Maryland has been experiencing one of the driest summers on record. While the farmers have been lamenting the weather, one feature of our environment has benefited from the sauna-like heat: the Chesapeake Bay. The lack of water has decreased the size of the dead zone in the Bay: an area of such low oxygen that animals and plants have trouble surviving.