Release of nutrients from lake-bottom sediments worsens Lake Erie's annual 'dead zone'

Robotic laboratories on the bottom of Lake Erie have revealed that the muddy sediments there release nearly as much of the nutrient phosphorus into the surrounding waters as enters the lake’s central basin each year from rivers and their tributaries.


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Source: ScienceDaily