fertilizer

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…

8 years ago

Cover Crops Look to be Changing Runoff Dynamics in Kansas

This spring and summer have been exciting months at the Kansas Agricultural Watershed (KAW) Field Research Facility. Nathan Nelson, Professor…

8 years ago

Plan to protect Lake Erie from algae blooms isn’t working, study shows

Farm runoff provides fertilizer that turbo-charges algae growth in the western Lake Erie basin. Wochit (Photo: Brenda Culler, Ohio Department…

8 years ago

Attack of the Killer Algae

Photo: Algal bloom on Lake Erie A roving pack of journalists shake off the rain in a squat, one-story federal…

8 years ago

U.S. rivers are getting saltier, potentially compromising drinking water

photo: Allison Cekala The bomb cyclone that hit the northeastern United States last week left roadways and vehicles caked in…

8 years ago