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  • Over recent decades the eutrophying effect of nitrogen deposition has also caused significant loss of biodiversity in some sensitive, nutrient limited ecosystems, such as heaths, bogs and mires in northern Europe and North America [70].

    Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 2 2007

  • Most rural people look with a mixture of hatred and terror at those cancerous developments eating up field and forest, eutrophying ponds where the fishing was once so great, and generally fucking with the landscape.

    Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Missing the Trees 2009

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