Morocco the Envy of the World
Russia is the largest country in the world, China is the most populated and the United States is the richest. And then there’s tiny Morocco, which isn’t exactly a global superpower but has something that every country wants–phosphorous.
Morocco has three-quarters of the world’s known reserves of rock phosphate, which is the main source of the element phosphorous, critical to civilization because plants need it to grow and we need plants to eat. Learn more in this edition of MinuteEarth.
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