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Environment: The disappearing nutrient

Natasha Gilbert

Nature, 2009, vol. 461, issue 7265, 716-718

Abstract: Phosphate-based fertilizers have helped spur agricultural gains in the past century, but the world may soon run out of them. Natasha Gilbert investigates the potential phosphate crisis.

Date: 2009
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