Trying to find focuses on this subject has proved difficult. The scope of this essay can barely cover a small percentage of what is really going on. I need to to a ton of more research. Till then this is what I have.
Well I am living in Florida and the biggest thing affecting this state is the fishing business. The big push for corn to be made into new fuels is casing a negative effect as the fertilizes used is leaching into the the Mississippi river and flowing into the Gulf of Mexico and causing a dead area covering many square miles of fishing area. A large Red tide Killed thousands and thousands of fish at the end of this summer and now the sea bottom is dieing out due to a lack of oxygen killing off the food source of the fish in a 2000 square mile area. Miles of coast line have skeletons still lying on the beach. I just took a picture of an area that had washed up and it was a foot wide and almost as tall and as long as the eye can see pile of bones. This is a smaller portion of a big problem. There are reports of dead zones of black junk that could be the blame of global warming, and some scientist just do not know where this is all coming from due to many different things happening all at once.
Although moving to green fuel is good for mitigating the air pollution it is destroying the coastal areas that depend on the fishing industry because Nitrogen rich waters increase the growth of harmful algae, ??
In a process known as hypoxia, all of that free nitrogen feeds a giant algae bloom, which ties up oxygen and destroys most life underneath: hence the "Dead Zone." http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/7/16/161412/560
Dead zone in the Gulf
By CATHY ZOLLO
http://www.redtidealert.com/DeadZoneintheGulf.html
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