Sentences with phrase «now fertilizer runoff»

Now fertilizer runoff from fields and lawns and excrement from pig and chicken farms are causing the plants to proliferate.

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The Nature paper suggests that microscopic plant growth in coastal areas, fueled by fertilizer runoff, is now leading to greater uptake of CO2.

For example, the Bioenergy Technologies Office has helped a company develop a process for making commercial airliner biofuel (now being tested by Boeing), and it sponsored research by public university scientists investigating how a bioenergy crop can help prevent water contamination from fertilizer runoff.

Reef biologists predicted the demise of the reefs that is becoming a reality now due to the runoff from the golf course fertilizers.