Headline: fertilizer, sewage damage critical ecosystem, study finds
Link to Boston Global here.
... stark evidence in an unusual scientific experiment that demonstrates the profound damage fertilizers and sewage can wreak on marshes that are critical for protecting young marine life and blunting the sea’s fury.
The nine-year study, conducted in the golden-hued Plum Island estuary and published Wednesday in the journal Nature, is the first to show that marshes may be crumbling from the inside out from a massive overload of nutrients.
“This idea that everyone has to have a bright green lawn is part of what is killing the coast,’’ said lead researcher Linda Deegan of the Marine Biological Laboratory Ecosystems Center. “Even if you are 25 miles from the coast, it sinks down into the ground water and makes it there.”Yup. Profound damage.
Didn't even make the front page of the Boston Globe.
