The report also notes that if calculations were made regionally rather than nationally, parts of China and the U.S. would already be considered to be suffering water stress or water scarcity. Parts of the U.S. will experience water shortages by 2015. Population-Driven Agricultural Increases Threaten Environment Increases in agriculture necessary to feed an increasing world population will pollute the environment, threaten animal species, and destroy forests, says a new report published in the journal Science. Natural ecosystems covering an area larger than the U.S. will need to be converted to agriculture by 2050, and the environmental impact may rival that of greenhouse gases, according to the study by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Much of the expansion is expected to occur in less developed rainforest countries.
Dead zones are aquatic areas incapable of supporting life.
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