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Sargassum Now World’s Largest Harmful Algal Bloom Due to Nitrogen A photo taken this month shows Sargassum piled up on a beach in Palm Beach County, Florida. (Photo credit: Brian Lapointe, Ph.D.) For centuries, pelagic Sargassum, floating brown seaweed, have grown in low nutrient waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, supported by natural nutrient sources like excretions from fishes and invertebrates, upwelling and nitrogen fixation. Using a unique historical baseline from the 1980s and...

TSCA/FIFRA/TRI EPA Announces Univar Solutions USA Will Pay $165,000 For FIFRA Violations:EPA announced on April 19, 2021, that Univar Solutions USA, Inc. of Portland, Oregon, will pay a $165,000 penalty for violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) when it failed to label properly its “Woodlife 111” pesticide, which is used as a wood preservative. EPA notes that under FIFRA, “a pesticide is misbranded if, ‘ the labeling accompanying it does not contain di...

OECD Environmental Performance Review of Ireland - 10:30 Dublin time on Monday 10 May 2021   05/05/2021 - Ireland’s efforts to delink its economy from environmental pressures have been challenged by strong economic growth in recent years that has driven up greenhouse gas emissions, waste generation and nutrient pollution. Intensive farming, population growth, urban sprawl and road traffic are also having an impact on the environment. At the same time, policies to curb climate change, protect...

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Caused by a combination of factors believe that warmer temperatures, static water, and youve got something called extreme nutrition. this is like a nitrogen and phosphorus. naturally occurring compounds which are animals and plants need blood are deadly when theres too much. >> because of our activities, whether its insidious or agriculturally, related nutrient pollution, we are giving them more nutrients and so thats allowing them to grow to these really dense concentrations in lakes and thats ...

Poison to them as well. >> she said people need to be warned about this problem. dogs are particularly susceptible to this toxic algae. that often drink the water inside ponds or lick themselves after they have been in the pond. martins three dogs began to have seizures within a half hour. she rushed them to the vet. all three dead by midnight. in georgia, lake allatoona, another dog died. its something that happens commonly in the summer along the gulf coast. but this year it spread far and wid...