Tile drainage is a common practice used in agricultural fields to remove excess water, but it also transports harmful nutrients into water bodies, contributing to algal blooms that deprive aquatic ...

The same phosphorus that fertilizes the thriving agriculture of the Midwest is also responsible for a vast 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico near the Mississippi Delta. Efforts to reduce the amount of ...

It’s no secret that the harmful algal bacteria that plagues the Finger Lakes annually are very partial to the chemical phosphorus. It’s better than junk food for HABs. It’s also ...

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A vital nutrient underpinning the world's food systems—and increasingly vital to green technologies—is the focus of a major international summit in Ghana this September, as scientists, policymakers ...

Wastewater in the Halstad city facility, pictured Feb. 15, is treated using bacteria. By adjusting the bacterial activity, the city reduced phosphorus and nitrogen in the treated wastewater released ...

In 2010, Wisconsin enacted new rules to limit the amount of phosphorus flowing into its waterways. It was, and remains, one of the most stringent set of regulations in the country to address the ...

This raises the question of how and where such high concentrations of phosphorus in water occurred on Earth billions of years ago. Earth scientist Craig Walton has a new answer: large soda lakes ...

TOLEDO — Just as Great Lakes scientists anticipated, the first blue-green swirls of a mammoth toxic algae bloom surfaced in mid-July in the nearshore waters of Lake Erie, between Monroe, Michigan, and ...

URBANA, Ill. – Tile drainage is a common practice used in agricultural fields to remove excess water, but it also transports harmful nutrients into water bodies, contributing to algal blooms that ...