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Solutions for a nitrogen-soaked world

Liza Lester Jan 18, 2012 No Comments

manure tractor

Overabundance of an essential nutrient creates – by Liza Lester, ESA communications officer. A tractor spreads manure. Excess fertilizer seeping out of fields has a host of consequences for ecological systems and human health. Credit, flickr user eutrophication&hypoxia, 2010.   NITROGEN is both an essential nutrient and a pollutant, a byproduct of fossil fuel combustion [...]

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Nutrient enrichment linked to diseases in humans and wildlife

Katie Kline Feb 24, 2010 No Comments

Cyanobacteria

Scientists have provided a rather grim prognosis for global health: the recent increase in nutrient enrichment due to human activities, such as nitrogen pollution through fossil fuel combustion, is likely contributing to several varieties of infectious diseases in humans and wildlife.

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