Just one year away from a 2025 deadline to reduce the farm runoff washing down the Mississippi River into Gulf of Mexico by 20%, success seems unlikely. (Photos: Darrell Hoemann, Investigate Midwest; ROSCOSMOS/NASA)
Farm to Trouble: A new series on slow progress curbing the runoff fueling the Gulf’s ‘dead zone’
Our latest collaborative project, free to republish, looks at the farming practices -- and overlooked solutions -- that pump fertilizer runoff into the Gulf of Mexico, causing a persistent "dead zone" and more impacts upstream.