EcoWatch: Glyphosate, the controversial main ingredient in Monsantos Roundup and other herbicides, is being connected to Lake Erie`s troubling algae blooms, which has fouled drinking water and suffocated and killed marine life in recent years.
Phosphorus--attributed to farm runoff carried by the Maumee River--has long been identified as a leading culprit feeding the excessive blooms in the western Lake Erie basin. Now, according to a new study from chemistry professor Christopher Spiese, a significant...