Every spring, a dead zone blooms in the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi River. In this hypoxic (low-oxygen) environment, little grows and little lives: mobile animals, like fish, swim out in search of better waters, while fixed...
In later years, Norman Borlaug would be known as the man who saved a billion lives, but in 1944, he was an agronomist with a problem. He’d moved to Mexico City to join the Cooperative Wheat Research Production Program, a collaborative effort between...
