Scientists Solve Riddle of Toxic Algae Blooms

An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from the Victoria Times Colonist: "After a remarkable 37-year experiment, University of Alberta scientist David Schindler and his colleagues have finally nailed down the chemical triggers for a problem that plagues thousands of freshwater and coastal ecosystems around the world." Punchline: "Phosphorus."

Comments

Re:Why is this a plague??

[zullnero]

Harvest the stuff. Make fuel out of it. It's way better than using corn. You're throwing away free gas...ok diesel.

What everyone else is saying is that this statement doesn't seem to take into count that the algae is TOXIC. You're talking about harvesting and therefore growing TOXIC algae. Do you want to run your car on TOXIC algae, when there is tons of wastewater algae freely available? You can't take two steps in Minnesota in the late spring without stepping in some. It grows in mud puddles in less than a week.

Re:So is there fertilizer without Phosphorus?

[Oktober Sunset]

Properly educated farmers, gardner and landscapers certainly can reduce the problem by:

Here's your problem, were talking about the US here right?