The Latest Nitrogen News Coverage
Media advisories and news on nitrogen science and policy
Most Recent Announcements and Articles
Researchers alter cow diets to help environment, The Philadelphia Enquirer, 8/14/10
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News Stories
Nitrogen Pollution Impacts in the US
The Nitrogen Dilemma: Is America Fertilizing Disaster? (Series), Grist, 2010 [read more...]
Sour Showers: Acid Rain Returns–This Time It Is Caused by Nitrogen Emissions, Scientific American, 6/21/10 [read more...]
Nitrogen — the new carbon?, Summit County Citizens Voice, 5/12/10 [read more...]
Earth’s growing nitrogen threat, Christian Science Monitor, 1/14/10 [read more...]
Study: Nitrogen pollution worsens in Rockies lakes, Associated Press, 11/5/09 [read more...]
Trend worsening for pollutant in 16 national parks, Associated Press, 7/20/09 [read more...]
Fertilizer & The Global Nitrogen Challenge
Tropicana: Trying to Make a Greener Orange Juice, TIME, 3/11/10
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...]
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...]
Nitrates and Groundwater Contamination
Coping with nitrate contamination (Multimedia Series), California Watch, 3/13/10 [read more...]
Something in the Water, The Atlantic, 7/6/10 [read more...]
State’s nitrates problem grows unchecked, San Francisco Chronicle, 5/17/10 [read more...]
Coastal “Dead Zones”
Gulf of Mexico: from magnificent resource to industrial sacrifice zone, Grist, 4/29/10 [read more...]
China launches armada to head off algae plume, The Guardian, 7/7/10 [read more...]
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...]
Farm-Level Solutions
Researchers alter cow diets to help environment, The Philadelphia Enquirer, 8/14/10 [read more...]
Unprecedented Cropland Study Confirms Conservation Practices Work On Farms in Upper Mississippi River Basin, Natural Resources Conservation Service, 6/16/10 [read more...]
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...]
Scientists Warn of Climate Accounting Glitch, New York Times, 10/22/09 [read more...]
Biofools: Farming biofuels produces nitrous oxide. This is bad for climate change, The Economist, 4/8/09 [read more...]