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      • Fish—Almost out of stock?
      • Are fish farms the future?
      • Fertilizer for the Dead Zones
      • Trash in the surf, poison in the sea
      • The Microplastic Problem
      • The danger of declining diversity
    • Chapter 7 – 12
      • How the ocean slows climate change
      • Warming waters and rising risks
      • Life in the Danger Zone
      • A corrosive future
      • Exploitation and protected areas
      • Who owns the ocean?
    • Chapter 13 – 18
      • Global Hunger for natural Resources
      • Where does the future lie
      • Destination: Ocean
      • World Trade and Price Wars
      • Living with the ocean
      • Towards a New Governance of the ocean
  • 12 Brief Lessons About the Ocean
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FERTILIZER FOR THE DEAD ZONES

Each summer, a 20,000-square-kilometer dead zone forms in the Gulf of Mexico near the Mississippi Delta. Hardly anything lives there now. But the cause of the lifeless water lies not in the gulf itself but on dry land, 2,000 kilometers upriver.

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  • Over-fertilization of the seas
  • Disruption to the plankton cycle
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