Fertilizer that helps crops grow contains high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus, and as these nutrients run off fields and urban areas into the Mississippi River they contribute to mass algae growth that steals oxygen from other aquatic life.
Gulf of Mexico
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How bad is the Gulf of Mexico?
Stumbled across this scary story in my hometown Louisiana newspaper. There are 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico.