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Deadly Algae Are Everywhere, Thanks to Agriculture

2014-08-08 19:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Scientific American: The rains come and water the spring shoots of another bounteous Midwestern corn crop in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. The rains also wash phosphorus off farm fields and into creeks, streams and rivers. The waters flow into the shallowest of the Great Lakes--Lake Erie, which is just 18 meters deep on average and far shallower on its western edge. All that phosphorus doesn't just help crops grow. When it reaches the lake it fuels the growth of mats of bright green algae, turning the water the color of...

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