Corn-derived ethanol produced in the United States poses an increased risk of jeopardizing marine life in the Gulf of Mexico by further expanding an oxygen-poor ‘dead zone’ that forms every summer. Nitrogen from fertilizer run-off flows down the Mississippi River and causes an algae bloom which literally suffocates the marine layers below the continental shelf.
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via Reuters
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