Dead Zones: Industrial Agriculture versus Ocean Life
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
Worldwide, there are now over a thousand coastal areas where fish can’t breathe. The nitrogen that makes crops grow is also destroying offshore ecosystems.
Tag: environmental effects of industrial agriculture
Beware of the N-bomb
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
There are good, and frightening, reasons to closely follow the changes in the nitrogen cycle. We should not be surprised if the effects and costs of disturbing it turn out to be as dramatic as those for the carbon cycle.