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Dead Zone Pollutant Grows Despite Decades of Work

Source
Sciences et Avenir

Publication Date
2012-07-10

One theory is that more fertilizer is washing into the watershed because corn acreage has skyrocketed. But some old nitrate could be bubbling up from contaminated groundwater

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dead-zone-pollutant-grows-despite-decades-work