Tag: Nutrient pollution
What is a wetland? An ecologist explains
Jon Sweetman, Penn State
Wetlands are areas of land that are covered by water, or have flooded or waterlogged...
Growing food and protecting nature don’t have to conflict – here’s...
Thomas Hertel, Purdue University
Growing food in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way – while also producing enough of it...
A few heavy storms cause a big chunk of nitrogen pollution...
Chaoqun Lu, Iowa State University
Some effects of extreme weather are visible – like half a million acres of flattened corn in Iowa left behind...
How your diet contributes to nutrient pollution and dead zones in...
Donald Scavia, University of Michigan
Every year in early summer, scientists at universities, research institutions and federal agencies release forecasts for the formation of “dead...
Small streams and wetlands are key parts of river networks –...
Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University
The Trump administration is proposing to redefine a key term in the Clean Water Act: “Waters of the United States.”...
Volcanic eruptions once caused mass extinctions in the oceans – could...
Jeremy D. Owens, Florida State University and Theodore R. Them II, College of Charleston
All animals, whether they live on land or in the water,...
Cutting pollution in the Chesapeake Bay has helped underwater grasses rebound
Bill Dennison, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Robert J. Orth, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Seagrasses are the “coastal canaries” of oceans...
Is your drinking water safe? Here’s how you can find out
Susan Boser, Pennsylvania State University and Diane Oleson, Pennsylvania State University
America’s drinking water infrastructure is aging and in serious need of modernization. Pipes are...
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Declining winter sea ice near Greenland spells cooler climate for Europe
Kent Moore, University of Toronto; Ian Renfrew, University of East Anglia; Kjetil Våge, University of Bergen, and Robert Pickart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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