World Resources Institute: This year’s extreme weather events–a warm winter, even warmer summer, and a drought that covered nearly two-thirds of the continental United States–has certainly caused its fair share of damages. But despite the crop failures, water shortages, and heat waves, extreme weather created at least one benefit: smaller dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay and Gulf of Mexico.
On a normal year, rain washes pollutants like nitrogen and phosphorous from farms and urban areas into the two bodies of water, fueling…

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