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...called the dead zone. Agricultural fertilizer byproducts like nitrogen are running off farms and into the Mississippi River, which then spills out into the Gulf of Mexico. Those chemicals help feed crops on land, but as they build up in the still, warm waters of the Gulf, they in turn feed excess growth of algae. When algae dies and decomposes, the process sucks much of the oxygen out of the water. A sea without oxygen is little different from the surface of the moon - nothing can live there. Fish and other sea life flee, or suffocate. That's the Gulf...
...defense, however, is weakening. Mulholland and his collaborators found that the filtering ability of streams couldn't keep pace with the flow of nitrogen pollution. So, as runoff from fertilizer increased, the natural denitrification system slowed, and more nitrogen survived untouched to the open ocean - worsening the dead zones. That's cause for concern as American farmers plant increasing amounts of corn, a crop that requires heavy fertilizer, to meet the growing global demand for grain and to supply America's corn-hungry ethanol makers. According to a separate study published by University of British Columbia and University of Wisconsin...
...Bollywood star Salman Khan his Tussaud's debut in January. But a dip in popularity can see figures hustled off into storage to make way for fresh exhibits. Still, there's always the possibility of rehabilitation: The chunky singer Gary Barlow was dusted down and reinstalled in the Music Zone after his 1990s boy-band Take That reunited in 2005 and went on to score new hits...
...rebound past Kessler and sent the game into extra minutes.“We learned a really good lesson that you can’t back off,” Stone said. “You gotta stay on your toes. You need to get out of the zone and pressure the puck and not sit back. That’s when bad bounces, bad things happen in hockey.”Harvard came out more intense in overtime. The resilient Crimson squad remained confident after what would have been the game-winning goal was taken away from it, coming...
...Brine.Brine buried the puck, extending the Crimson’s lead to 2-0.Six minutes later, freshman Liza Ryabkina sealed the victory with a crowd-wowing breakaway goal.Ryabkina, frustrated after being called for three penalties in the course of the game, stole the puck in the Golden Knights’ zone and broke toward the net. Utilizing some impressive stickwork to get around defenders, she faked out Grandmont-Berube before slipping the puck between the goalie’s legs.“I can’t really describe it because I was kind of surprised myself...