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To reduce harmful algal blooms and dead zones, the US needs a national strategy for regulating farm pollution

  • Written by Donald Boesch, Professor of Marine Science, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
To reduce harmful algal blooms and dead zones, the US needs a national strategy for regulating farm pollutionSatellite photo of an algal bloom in western Lake Erie, July 28, 2015.NASA Earth Observatory

Midsummer is the time for forecasts of the size of this year’s “dead zones” and algal blooms in major lakes and bays. Will the Gulf of Mexico dead zone be the size of New Jersey, or only as big as Connecticut? Will Lake Erie’s...

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