With fertilizers that supply phosphorus–what Asimov called “life’s bottleneck”– people broke the circle of life. Dan Egan’s new book The Devil’s Element traces the history of this essential element from curiosity to crop miracle. Egan documents the mayhem unleashed by a flood of phosphorus, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and discusses how people can act to stop phosphorus-fueled blooms of algae that are closing beaches, killing animals and sickening people.
#525 Chernobyl
#524 The Human Network
#523 Happy As A Clam (Garden)
#522 Home Alone?
#521 The Curious Life of Krill
#520 A Closer Look at Objectivism
#519 Animal Architects
#518 With Genetic Knowledge Comes the Need for Counselling
#517 Life in Plastic, Not Fantastic
#516 The Keys to Skeletons Lost
#515 Humanimal
#514 Arctic Energy (Rebroadcast)
#513 Dinosaur Tails
#512 All Over The Map
#511 Ok you worked out, now what?
#510 Gene Drives (Rebroadcast)
#509 Anisogamy: The Beginning of Male and Female
#508 Freedom's Laboratory
#507 Poaching, and We Don't Mean Eggs
#506 Everybody Poops (Rebroadcast)
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