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Fertilizer washes off Midwest farm fields and taints communities’ drinking water, poisons Gulf of Mexico

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Champaign County, Illinois, helps feed the nation’s demand for corn and soybeans while fueling one of the more insidious impacts of climate change. As rain carries unused fertilizer into the nearby Spoon River, it spurs toxic algae growth downstream. The excess nutrients flow with the waters from the Spoon into a series of larger rivers until dumping into the Gulf of Mexico, fueling a massive dead zone.

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Fertilizer washes off Midwest farm fields and taints communities’ drinking water, poisons Gulf of Mexico

As rainfall events become more intense and frequent, fertilizers applied to Midwestern farmland wash away, contaminating waterways near and far.

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