THE ATLANTIC ***Anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022*** ***Honorable mention for the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ 2022 science writing award*** We broke phosphorus. In a field of sugar beets outside Cambridge, England, Simon Kelly stands above a narrow trench gouged into the rusty earth, roughly 15 feet deep and … More Humanity Is Flushing Away One of Life’s Essential Elements