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Topic: Fertilizer

Glossy glass balls showing world under microscope (Getty Images/OsakaWayne Studios)

The mysterious microplastics in our soil

Martin Henseler - The Conversation
Rusted manhole cover in the cement of an abandoned street (Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The past, present, and future of poop

Jenny Morber - Undark
(Julia Gartland / Food52)

Does this plant food actually work?

Kelly Vaughan - Food52
(Getty/JamesBrey)

A new way to curb nitrogen pollution

David Kanter - The Conversation
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Our fertilizer is killing us

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=299381'>cjp</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Feed the microbes!

Matthew Wallenstein - The Conversation
(Inhabitant/Shutterstock)

Our sewers are a goldmine

Lindsay Abrams
(Meryll/Shutterstock)

Iowa's drinking water debacle

Lindsay Abrams
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Satellite image of 2011 Lake Erie bloom (the most severe in decades) (MERIS/NASA)

Lindsay Abrams
Artist's rendering of the extinct Megatherium (The Wonderful Paleo Art of Heinrich Harder)

Lindsay Abrams
Firefighters check a destroyed apartment complex near the fertilizer plant that exploded earlier in West, Texas, in this photo made early Thursday, April 18, 2013. (AP/LM Otero)

Christopher Sherman, Nomaan Merchant

Jill Richardson
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