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A farmer uses a manure spreader as a natural fertilizer. An excess of manure from livestock produces an excess of ammonia, a harmful nitrogen emission. Image by CityofGeneva via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Nitrogen: The environmental crisis you haven’t heard of yet

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Sep 2021

Global warming, pollution supersize the oceans’ oxygen-depleted dead zones

Basten Gokkon 9 Jan 2018

NOAA announces largest-ever Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Aug 2017

Does haze from burning forests affect marine life?

Jeremy Hance 10 Mar 2014

Mesoamerican Reef needs more local support, says report

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 13 Sep 2013

Organic yields lag behind industrial farming, but that’s not the whole story

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2012

Jellyfish explosion may be natural cycle

Jeremy Hance 6 Feb 2012

Ocean prognosis: mass extinction

Jeremy Hance 20 Jun 2011

Record dead zone projected due to Midwest floods

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2011

Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet

Gabriel Thoumi 23 May 2011

Growing Atlantic dead zone shrinks habitat for billfish and tuna, may lead to over-harvest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Dec 2010

Backbone of marine food chain in alarming decline

Jeremy Hance 28 Jul 2010

New NASA image reveals the oceans’ dead zones

Jeremy Hance 22 Jul 2010

Biofuel company eyes dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico for creating fish-powered fuel

Jeremy Hance 18 Aug 2009

Will jellyfish take over the world?

Jeremy Hance 16 Jun 2009

Climate change, ocean acidification may doom jumbo squid

Mongabay.com 15 Dec 2008

U.S. needs environmental standards for biofuels

Mongabay.com 2 Oct 2008

The long-ignored ocean emergency and what can be done to address it

Jeremy Hance 18 Aug 2008

Marine ‘dead zones’ double every decade

Jeremy Hance 14 Aug 2008

U.S. dead zones may reach record levels this summer

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2008

Nitrogen pollution harming ecosystems and contributing to global warming

Mongabay.com 15 May 2008

Global warming to worsen ocean dead zones, hurt fisheries

Mongabay.com 1 May 2008

Ocean dead zones have nearly quadrupled since 1994

Jeremy Hance 3 Apr 2008

Corn ethanol is worsening the Gulf dead zone

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2008

Why are oceans at risk from global warming?

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2008

U.S. biofuels policy drives deforestation in Indonesia, the Amazon

Rhett A. Butler 17 Jan 2008

Cellulosic ethanol production could fight Gulf Dead Zone, help fisheries

Rhett A. Butler 16 Jan 2008

Oregon dead zone event over, but cause still unknown

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2006

‘Dead Zone’ causing wave of death off Oregon coast

Oregon State University 10 Aug 2006

Hypoxic “dead zone” growing off the Oregon Coast

Oregon State University 31 Jul 2006

Lack of oxygen triggers sex imbalance in fish

Mongabay.com 29 Mar 2006

Gulf dead zone larger than expected

Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium 2 Aug 2005

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