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
RT @nybooks: “‘No phosphorus, no life on Earth,’. Dan Egan explains in. his account of how this confounding element helps to keep the pla….
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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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RT @UWMWaterPolicy: Please share widely with your networks! **Fully funded (tuition remission + stipend and benefits)** graduate RA posit….
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RT @GLCommission: Exciting news! Award-winning journalist @danpatrickegan will be joining us at the #GreatLakes Commission Annual Meeting f….
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RT @cripescast: Live from the iconic Memorial Union Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin, Charlie interviews author Dan Egan, Grass Ecology Profes….
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RT @UWiscSeaGrant: A perfect night with the perfect backdrop for an important conversation about phosphorus and lake health with @CharlieB….
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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. @WiscLimnology
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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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RT @SEddy444: As @danpatrickegan showed us in this interactive from 2021 Chicago was "built for a different time. The time before climate c….
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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RT @mujschool: Chemical fertilizers feed the world — at increasingly steep costs to people and the planet. "The Price of Plenty" is a colla….
columbiamissourian.com
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RT @Chem2W: Goed vertelde anekdotes over botten, vogelpoep en bommen schetsen het veelzijdige karakter van het element #fosfor: https://t.c….
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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RT @Gastropodcast: It’s #13 on the periodic table, glows in the dark & lights on fire if it gets too hot, nicknaming phosphorus “the devil’….
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Podcast Episode · Gastropod · 04/25/2023 · 46m
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RT @sci4thepeople: NEW EPISODE: This week: a history of phosphorus. Urine, dead bodies, ancient poop, and the trouble unleashed on our worl….
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RT @wwnorton: .@scifri and @volumesbooks present…. THE DEVIL'S ELEMENT.@danpatrickegan + @funkminister .Thurs., April 27 at 7:30pm ET. An i….
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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