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Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Smaller Than Expected

Good news doesn’t come as often as we’d like nowadays, so it’s nice to be able to report that this year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone isn’t nearly as large as experts thought it would be. NOAA-sponsored forecast models predicted that it would be bigger than usual at 7,000 – 8,000 square miles, but the [...]

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Peak Oil, Peak Water… Peak Dirt?

Right now, there are proclamations of peak everything: peak oil, peak water, peak rice, peak metal, even peak guano. But would you ever have thought it possible to run out of dirt? It seems limitless, but in truth dirt is far more complicated than most people realize, and there were bound to be [...]

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Peru Turning to Armed Guards to Protect Precious Bird Shit

You may have heard of Peak Oil, but how about Peak Guano? Guano, otherwise known as bird shit, was once so much in demand that wars were fought over it. After synthetic fertilizer was invented, the industry nearly went extinct – but as organic fertilizers come back into vogue, officials in Peru are finding themselves [...]

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