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How Do Agricultural Inputs Affect Rivers, Lakes and the Ocean?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer algae, Alternative Farming System Information Center, bloom, CDC, fertilizer, herbicide, OrganicGardeningGuru, pesticide, poison, poisoning, U.S. Centers for Disease Control, wildlife

Algae blooms and the poisoning of aquatic life are just a few of the problems associated with our overuse of herbicides, pesticides and fertilizer on our farms and in our backyards.

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Chernobyl Wildlife Thriving 30 Years Later

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Chernobyl, conservation, disaster, Eastern Europe, Exclusion Zone, extinct, fallout, isolation, man-made, meltdown, model, nuclear, poisoning, preservation, Przewalski’s Horse, radiation, rebound, Ukraine, Ukrainian, wilderness, wildlife, wolf, wolves

These days, wildlife is thriving around the site of the nuclear reactor meltdown at Chernobyl in the Ukraine three decades ago. Biologists say the lack of people in the “Exclusion Zone” thirty kilometers around reactor has made it easier for the animals that did survive — and their progeny — to now flourish.

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