Due to strict environmental regulations, farmers are not allowed to spread all of their manure on their land. At the same ...

Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question "How did we get here?" These moments also shed ...

A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

This is especially true in the Arctic Ocean, where geographic and climatic factors contribute to a particularly complex nitrogen cycle. Arrigo et al. review current knowledge of how nitrogen ...

But how can agriculture affect the nitrogen cycle? How has it managed to reach a breaking point? To feed the world, isn’t intensive agriculture best? Let’s take stock of the situation.

A complex of industrial towers rises from the flat landscape ... emissions come from the nitrogen applied on farmers’ fields. It’s all about the nitrogen cycle, a series of processes where nitrogen ...

In the present work, we report the structural analysis of basic nitrogen-containing compounds in a mixed-plastic ... but neither double bond outside the cycle was present. However, a DBE value of ...

“These results show how the world is changing in complex and surprising ways ... This is why we can say that the nitrogen cycle is seizing up,” said Andrew Elmore, senior author on the ...

New evidence suggests that the world is currently experiencing a dual trajectory in nitrogen availability, with both excessive and insufficient nitrogen present on Earth simultaneously.