Water Contamination
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Two decades of data centers: Quincy’s mayors look back
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Several agricultural, data center issues began in Quincy
More than three decades after heavy metals in fertilizers were first investigated there, the Central Washington city of Quincy remains a harbinger of agriculture and other trends throughout the region. Questions by city officials, farmers and others in Quincy during the 1990s were followed by a 1998 Food and Drug Administration safety test that discovered…
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WASTE LANDS: THE THREAT OF TOXIC FERTILIZER
The recycling of hazardous industrial wastes into fertilizers introduces several dozen toxic metals and chemicals into the nation’s farm, lawn and garden soils, including such well-known toxic substances as lead and mercury. Many crops and plants extract these toxic metals from the soil, increasing the chance of impacts on human health as crops and plants…
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Excess fertilizer use: which countries cause environmental damage by overapplying fertilizers?
Nutrients are essential for crop growth. But when they’re overapplied they become a pollutant. Fertilizers have transformed the way the world produces food. They have not only brought large benefits for food security, but they also bring environmental benefits through higher yields (and therefore less land use). But, there can be a downside. When we…
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