Inside Climate News -The historic rains that flooded millions of acres of Midwestern
cropland this spring landed a blow to an already struggling farm
economy. They also delivered bad news for the climate. Scientists
project that all that water has flushed vast amounts of fertilizer and
manure into waterways, triggering a potentially unprecedented season of
algae blooms. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted
that the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico—a massive overgrowth of
algae—could become the size of Massachusetts this summer, coming close
to a record set in 2017, and that an algae bloom in Lake Erie could also reach a record size.
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