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Feeding the world, poisoning the planet
Sun StaffFirst of five articles AASEN, Netherlands -- Leopold Hendrick admits a visitor through the locked doors of the world's first bureaucracy dedicated to tracking and taxing animal waste, a kind of manure IRS. The government administrator apologizes for...Tags: Biology, Conservation, Fritz Haber, Australia, Environmental Politics
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Producing more nitrogen, not knowing where it goes
Sun StaffApplied to soils as fertilizer and released as fuel burned in autos and industries, nitrogen readily spreads through the planet's natural systems, with devastating consequences. For decades, farmers and researchers were convinced that agriculture...Tags: Natural Resources, Calvert County, Water Restrictions, Environmental Pollution, Maryland
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Nitrates are elusive suspect in assortment of illnesses
Sun StaffDES MOINES, Iowa -- The Raccoon River is the most nitrogen-polluted river in America's heartland. Each day in spring and summer, the Raccoon carries as much as 600 tons of nitrate, the biologically active form of nitrogen, past the Des Moines Waterworks'...Tags: Colleges and Universities, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water Supply, University of Iowa, Water
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Cycle of growth and devastation
Sun StaffSecond of five articles St. James Parish, La. -- The breeze blowing from the Mississippi River across sugar cane fields to Emelda West's house carries the sting of ammonia. Since West's girlhood, the nation's densest concentration of fertilizer factories...Tags: Energy Saving, Family, Water Pollution, Conservation, Seafood and Fishing Industry
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Seeds of solution to nitrogen glut
Sun StaffLast of five articles To cut back on the flow of lethal nitrogen pollution to the world's waters, Iowa corn grower Roy Bardole would need to let go of the idea that the best farmer is the one with the biggest crop. He'd have to use less fertilizer or...Tags: University of Minnesota, Biology, Conservation, University of Iowa, Ethics
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China's prosperity turns seas toxic
Sun StaffFourth of five articles ANZHEN, China -- Nitrogen fertilizer has lifted the yoke off Hua Xijin's shoulders. Before the "green revolution" came to China, it took roughly 6 tons of river mud to fertilize a rice paddy small enough to fit in the corner...Tags: Asia, Oceans, Hong Kong, Productivity, Environmental Pollution
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Sea grasses vanish, marine life in peril
Sun StaffThird of five articles PUCK BAY, Poland -- Between untangling gill nets and wrestling wooden boxes of flounder and turbot onto the dock, Derc Brunon tells his story -- more and more the story of fishermen all around Europe and the world. His is the...Tags: Conservation, Water Pollution, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Finland, Bladder
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Dangerous cloud hangs over Great Barrier Reef
Sun StaffTOWNSVILLE, Australia -- Diver, champion spearfisherman and underwater filmmaker for 50 years, Ben Cropp has looked long and closely into the crystalline waters surrounding the famed Great Barrier Reef. Four years ago, Cropp filmed a documentary, "The...Tags: Natural Resources, Colleges and Universities, Marine Park, Conservation, Water Pollution
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China's prosperity turns seas toxic
Sun StaffFourth of five articles ANZHEN, China -- Nitrogen fertilizer has lifted the yoke off Hua Xijin's shoulders. Before the "green revolution" came to China, it took roughly 6 tons of river mud to fertilize a rice paddy small enough to fit in the corner of a...Tags: Asia, Oceans, Hong Kong, Productivity, Seafood
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Bay checklist for candidates
HOW WELL will Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the leading candidates for governor, do at protecting the Chesapeake Bay? Here's a yardstick to help judge them. By the mid-1980s, when programs to restore the bay's health got seriously...Tags: Energy Saving, Natural Resources, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Chesapeake Bay, Elections
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Minnesota strives to increase inspections of anhydrous storage facilities
St. Cloud Times, Minn.Anhydrous Ammonia Storage Facilities A massive explosion last month at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, that killed 15 people and injured 200 more also heightened awareness of hazardous farm chemicals and how they are stored. Ammonium nitrate, which...Tags: Safety of Citizens, Belgrade (Serbia), Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (2013), Emergency Incidents, Explosions
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Tampa, Switfmud change Rogers' gofl course runoff
The Tampa TribuneCity and state officials have taken the first steps toward a renovation of Rogers Park Golf Club that would reduce pollution washing into the Hillsborough River. The Tampa City Council agreed to put $100,000 toward changing the course's drainage layout....Tags: Environmental Pollution, Golf, Rivers, Chemical Industry
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