Midwestern farm fertilizer runnoff is expected to create a massive algae bloom and a biological desert to follow it. TOM PHILPOTT JUN. 17, 2016 6:00 AM The Gulf of Mexico teems with biodiversity and contains some of the globe’s most productive fisheries. Yet starting in the early 1970s, large swaths of the Gulf began to …Read More
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Dependence on Synthetic Fertilizers
For about the last 50 years, farmers around the world have used synthetic nitrogen fertilizers to boost their crop yields and drive the 20th century’s rapid agricultural intensification…But in their fervor to increase yields, farmers often dose their crops with more nitrogen than the plants can absorb. The total amount of nitrogen that is put …Read More