I second the blah's, FP has god awful and misleading articles. The best example I could find is here: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/20/scenes_f

I second the blah's, FP has god awful and misleading articles. The best example I could find is here: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/20/scenes_from_violent_twilight_of_oil_photo_essay?page=0,4 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/20/scenes_from... where the writing seems to be blaming oil extraction for the duckweed algae. However oil kills duckweed algae, the reason the algae is so present in the salt lake is because of sewage been dumped into it. I remember my parent's garden pond had a major outbreak of it because birds kept crapping in it, and one of the actual treatments we were referenced to for it was actually a petroleum based oil.