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A few heavy storms cause a big chunk of nitrogen pollution from Midwest farms

  • Written by Chaoqun Lu, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University
imageCorn plants in a flooded field near Emden, Ill., May 29, 2019.Scott Olson/Getty Images

Some effects of extreme weather are visible – like half a million acres of flattened corn in Iowa left behind after a derecho that hit the Midwestern United States on Aug. 10.

Other effects are harder to measure, but can be just as harmful. One example is...

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