For two decades, scientists have been studying toxic cyanobacterial blooms that have been expanding in the western basin of Lake Erie and causing dead zones in the central basin. The nutrient pollution that causes it, primarily from agriculture, is not regulated. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
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