The Latest Nitrogen News Coverage

Media advisories and news on nitrogen science and policy

Most Recent Announcements and Articles

New Article: The growing problem of nitrogen. Read the Christian Science Monitor’s story here.

New Study: Nitrogen Pollution Affecting Health of Colorado’s Remote Mountain Lakes. Listen to the KNDK-FM story

News Stories

Bioenergy and Climate Change

Another Chemical Could Worsen Warming, Discovery, 1/4/10 [read more...]

Carbon rules could damage Michigan’s biofuel industry, Detroit News, 11/10/09 [read more...]

Scientists: Biofuel Laws May Harm Environment, National Public Radio, 10/23/09 [read more...]

Tallying Biofuels’ Real Environmental Cost, TIME, 10/23/09 [read more...]

Ethanol tanks, The Economist, 10/22/09 [read more...]

Scientists Warn of Climate Accounting Glitch, New York Times, 10/22/09 [read more...]

Advanced biofuels will stoke global warming: study, Reuters, 10/22/09 [read more...]

Study: Impact of bioenergy crops on climate change underestimated, Washington Post, 10/22/09 [read more...]

Nitrogen Pollution Impacts in the US

Earth’s growing nitrogen threat, Christian Science Monitor, 1/14/10 [read more...]

Protesters want Colorado to “stop clowning around” on clean air, Denver Post, 11/19/09, [read more...]

Study: Nitrogen pollution worsens in Rockies lakes, Associated Press, 11/5/09 [read more...]

Nitrogen Polluting Mountain Lakes, KDNK-FM (Roaring Fork Valley, CO), 11/6/09 [read more...]

Trend worsening for pollutant in 16 national parks, Associated Press, 7/20/09 [read more...]

Bring in the cows: Grazing may be the best hope for a threatened butterfly, High Country News, 5/18/09 [read more...]

Fertilizer & the Global Nitrogen Challenge

Huge Global Fertilizer Imbalances Lead to Pollution, Hunger, Voice of America (radio), 7/8/09 [read more...]

Fertilizer Divide: Too Much, Not Enough, Dot Earth, New York Times, 6/19/09 [read more...]

The Global Food Crisis: The End of Plenty, National Geographic, 6/09 [read more...]

Top scientists call for cuts in nitrogen use, Greenwire, 05/29/2009 [read more...]

Biofools: Farming biofuels produces nitrous oxide. This is bad for climate change, The Economist, 4/8/09 [read more...]

Nitrogen Fertilizer: Agricultural Breakthrough–And Environmental Bane, Scientific American, 3/20/09 [read more...]

Reactive Nitrogen: The Next Big Pollution Problem, WIRED, 5/15/08 [read more...]

Coastal “Dead Zones”

Record Corn Crop Spells More Trouble for Gulf of Mexico Fisheries, Huffington Post, 8/19/09 [read more...]

Dead zone in Gulf smaller but still 3,000 square miles, Naples Daily News, 7/27/09 [read more...]

ALTERED OCEANS PART THREE: Dark Tides, Ill Winds, Los Angeles Times, 8/1/06 [read more...]