Tag: acid
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Clock Ticking on Florida’s Mountains of Hazardous Phosphate Waste
One of the largest fertilizer manufacturing plants in the world sits about six miles southwest of the Polk County hamlet of Mulberry, with its entrance in walking distance of the Hillsborough County line. About 800 employees work there, turning phosphate rock into nearly 4 million tons of fertilizer and animal food ingredients every year. They…
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Acidified Ocean Water Widespread Along North American West Coast
photo: Tidepool organisms are threatened by acidification. (Credit: Jane Lubchenco) A three-year survey of the California Current System along the West Coast of the United States found persistent, highly acidified water throughout this ecologically critical nearshore habitat, with “hotspots” of pH measurements as low as any oceanic surface waters in the world. (From Phys.org /…
