Monday, March 1, 2010

River Trouble!

Hello people of Earth, and on that note; why don't we save the Earth? Here is another thing I found out during my research that I want to share with you. Did you know that farmers use fertilizers to speed up the growth of plants? Well, most of the fertilizers are made of nitrogen (a gas). Now, don't get me wrong, these fertilizers help the plants growth tenfold. But, most of the time, farmers use too much of the nitrogen. Now, because of that, the leftover nitrogen gets swamped away by rain and it goes into the nearby rivers. Now, the bad part. The extra nitrogen will also promote the growth of plants like algae. Now, normally, algae gets well fed, but because of the extra nitrogen, it starts growing out of control, and then it finally ends up taking up a lot of the oxygen, space and other essential minerals in the water. And because of that, the fish and the other plants finally start dying because the algae took up all the space and the nutrients. Think of this; if the only food on Earth was cookies, and the cookie monster ate all of the cookies, you would start getting hungry right Same feeling for the life in the water. You don't want to kill this guy, would you?

So now you know. If the sea is polluted with artificial (unreal) nutrients, the seaweed would grow and fill up the shoreline. That would be a problem for humans (because we have to clean up!), and it would be a problem for the marine life too because it is taking up space. Now, I want you to think about something: Whenever you throw your garbage into a stream, a gutter or a beach, it will most likely to end up in a river. Well, that's it. Bye for now!

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