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What Connects Bones, Bird Poop, and Toxic Green Slime? Hint: Without It, Half of Us Wouldn't Be Alive Today

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The Effects of Phosphorus on Water Quality

In 1970, Lake Erie was in fact declared dead. Algal blooms generated by sewage and pollution from industrial waste had killed much of the lake's aquatic life. Fertilizers are made to grow crops. Washed into the lake, they grow weed. Lakeshores become strands of slime. Only the weed thrives.

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