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Mississippi flooding carrying farm runoff

  • June 03, 2011

The great Leslie Kaufman of the New York Times offers this story on flooding in the Mississippi and how all that fertilizer runoff is going to creat the biggest dead zone ever in the Gulf of Mexico.

It's hard to believe they spelled phosphorus wrong in the first version - maybe that's because I write the word so often. But on the bright side, at least they spelled Mississippi right. And the stats are pretty alarming.

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