Dan Egan
@danpatrickegan
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Journalist, author of The Devil's Element and The Death and Life of the Great Lakes. https://t.co/cl2WQIWkcj
Milwaukee, WI
Joined June 2012
“‘No phosphorus, no life on Earth,’...Dan Egan explains in...his account of how this confounding element helps to keep the plates of modern civilization spinning—and how some plates may be starting to wobble and crash to the floor.” —@jonmingle on the looming planetary nutrient
nybooks.com
We cannot grow the crops that feed eight billion people and counting without phosphorus. At the rate we waste this precious element, how long will supplies last?
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Who cares about disappearing reserves of phosphorus fertilizer and the concomitant trashing of our fresh waters due to overdoing crops with the stuff? About 500 lunch eaters in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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Please share widely with your networks! **Fully funded (tuition remission + stipend and benefits)** graduate RA position to research water policy and science communications. The successful candidate may also get to work with decorated author and journalist @danpatrickegan!
💧 Job Alert! We are seeking a fully-funded Water Policy and Science Communications Grad Fellow! Earn a MS degree @watersciUWM while diving into H20 policy and sci comm. $21k/academic yr + full tuition waiver. Pls share with your networks! More info ⬇️ https://t.co/C36ZBWmjIP
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Exciting news! Award-winning journalist @danpatrickegan will be joining us at the #GreatLakes Commission Annual Meeting for a conversation about his new book THE DEVIL'S ELEMENT. Register now! https://t.co/mkGC4UvJvU
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Live from the iconic Memorial Union Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin, Charlie interviews author Dan Egan, Grass Ecology Professor Randy Jackson, and UW's Limnology director, Jake Vander Zanden, about the phosphorus levels in our lakes.
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A perfect night with the perfect backdrop for an important conversation about phosphorus and lake health with @CharlieBerens, @danpatrickegan and UW experts @JakeDeLake and @JacksonRD.
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Here's to the Wisconsin Idea! If you don't know what that is, show up on the UW union terrace at Lake Mendota on Aug. 31 or tune in
Holy smokes! Come see comedian @CharlieBerens in conversation with author @danpatrickegan on Aug. 31 from 5:00-6:30pm at the Memorial Union! They'll be discussing #AlgalBlooms and #phosphorus with UW-Madison experts. https://t.co/JqFHnm1F7L
@WiscLimnology
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🇺🇸 Relying On Desperate Measure To Save Lifeline Of Everglades ▫Some worry reservoir won't stem harm from pollution ▫@danpatrickegan ▫ https://t.co/mytB5lLjVO 🇺🇸 #frontpagestoday #USA @nytimes
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It’s Toxic Slime Time on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee
nytimes.com
Electric green algal blooms are spreading, threatening wildlife, pets, people and cities. And algae season is only getting started.
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As @danpatrickegan showed us in this interactive from 2021 Chicago was "built for a different time. The time before climate change."
nytimes.com
The climate crisis haunts Chicago’s future as a warming world pushes Lake Michigan toward new extremes — higher highs, lower lows, greater uncertainty.
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Chemical fertilizers feed the world — at increasingly steep costs to people and the planet. "The Price of Plenty" is a collaborative project from student journalists at the Missouri School of Journalism and @UFJSchool. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade
columbiamissourian.com
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Goed vertelde anekdotes over botten, vogelpoep en bommen schetsen het veelzijdige karakter van het element #fosfor: https://t.co/3slXD8HBLH Recensie van 'The Devil's Element' van @danpatrickegan
@erwinboutsma
sciencelink.net
Goed vertelde anekdotes over botten, vogelpoep en bommen schetsen het veelzijdige karakter van het element fosfor.
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Overdosing croplands with phosphorus fertilizer and its toxic consequences for freshwater supplies -- the Aussies are on it
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The Devil's Element: The global phosphorus paradox
abc.net.au
Phosphorus supports all life on Earth, yet we're exhausting our reserves of this finite resource at an unsustainable rate, while we allow it to overflow and pollute our waterways. As we inch towards...
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It’s #13 on the periodic table, glows in the dark & lights on fire if it gets too hot, nicknaming phosphorus “the devil’s element.” In our new episode @danpatrickegan guides us through this element that became hellishly essential to global food production:
podcasts.apple.com
Podcast Episode · Gastropod · 04/25/2023 · 46m
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NEW EPISODE: This week: a history of phosphorus. Urine, dead bodies, ancient poop, and the trouble unleashed on our world’s waters by a torrent of an essential element with @danpatrickegan
https://t.co/4QW9ma0B8d
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.@scifri and @volumesbooks present… THE DEVIL'S ELEMENT @danpatrickegan + @funkminister Thurs., April 27 at 7:30pm ET An in-person and live-streamed event. https://t.co/aODB0ZmQ4E
sciencefriday.com
On April 27, join our event with the author of ‘The Devil's Element’ about our long history with elemental phosphorus.
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