Dead zones in Gulf caused, in part, by farm drainage

Wednesday, November 24, 2010 - 10:02 in Astronomy & Space

(PhysOrg.com) -- The tile drainage systems in upper Mississippi farmlands -- from southwest Minnesota to across Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio -- are the biggest contributors of nitrogen runoff into the Gulf of Mexico, reports a Cornell/University of Illinois-Urbana study.

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