Problems at a Los Angeles sewage treatment plant that caused a massive spill into Santa Monica Bay last month have severely reduced the region's water recycling ability.
The chemicals we rely on to grow food often end up poisoning the planet and threatening the lives of many species on it, including ours. One place in the country has found a fix for this dilemma.
Researchers with the Chesapeake Conservancy have developed a tool that shows what's on the ground—buildings, pavement, trees, lawns—across 100,000 square miles from upstate New York to southern Virginia, all draining into Chesapeake Bay.
