Yet agriculture runoff is a major environmental problem for the wider Great Lakes region. Nitrates and phosphorus act as a fuel for the dangerous algae bloom growth that’s increasingly common in the ...
A story in a recent Star Tribune about a Rochester dentist filing a complaint against farmers who plant crops too close to the Zumbro River has everyone from environmentalists to farmers talking.
Some agricultural pesticides used in the Midwest can also be carried to the wetland through surface runoff. Nitrates are lost from upland sites primarily through subsurface drainage. In the wetland, ...
Water is a fundamental resource for life, yet it is increasingly under threat from pollution caused by human activities. From ...
New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching the Environmental Protection Agency’s goals. Funded by a National Science ...
Large farms would have to report their fertilizer use under a bill being considered by the Oregon Legislature. The goal, the ...
Major nutrient sources include agricultural runoff, domestic sewage (also a source of microbial pollution), industrial effluents and atmospheric inputs from fossil fuel burning and bush fires.
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