NitroNews - Nitrogen in the news and other media
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News article featured in the "Science for Environmental Policy" Newsletter, Issue 119
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Beyond carbon: Scientists worry about nitrogen's effects - By Richard Morgan The New York Times, Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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Snared in a homemade 'NitroNet' - VIEWPOINT by Mark Sutton, BBC Green Room, 2008
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Does heavier rain mean a bigger sink? by Dave S. Reay, Nature Reports Climate Change 4, 54-56, 2007
- Seabird Ammonia Emissions Contribute To Atmospheric Acidity, ScienceDaily, Sep. 23, 2008
- Spanish news article on anniversary of the Haber-Bosch process, Publico.es, Oct. 17, 2008 (english translation available here)
- "Humanity's heavy load on the nitrogen cycle", in: The ENDS Report - the journal for environmental policy and business in
the UK; August 2008/Issue 403, pp 40-42, www.endsreport.com
- Ammonia story in Nature Geoscience featured as most interesting article in Oct 2008; read the article here and more about the 1st anniversary of Nature Geoscience here.
- Farming biofuels produces nitrous oxide. This is bad for climate change. Article in The Economis, April 8th, 2009
- Belgian City of Ghent introduces Thursday as vegetarian-day to cut GHG emissions, read the story in the BBC news here, May 18th, 2009
- Fertilizer Divide: Too Much, Not Enough, Article in the New York Times, June 19, 2009
- Nutrient Imbalances in Agricultural Development, Paper by Peter Vitousek et al.,Science 19 June 2009, Vol. 324. no. 5934, pp. 1519 - 1520,DOI: 10.1126/science.1170261
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Study highlights massive imbalances in global fertilizer use, Article in the Stanford Report, June 22, 2009
- Farming pollutants, Article in Nature Asia-Pacific on ammonia emissions, June 22, 2009
- Trend worsening for pollutant in 16 national parks, Bellingham Herald, July 22, 2009
- Nitrogen deposition limits climate change impacts on carbon sequestration, ScienceDaily, Oct 8, 2009
The detailed scientific discussion of these results is summarised in a special issue of the Journal Forest Ecology and Management, 258(8) - A letter on ""Grazing-induced reduction of natural nitrous oxide release from continental steppe" has been publised in Nature, see here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7290/full/nature08931.html for the full text. In addition to that, this topic is picked up in the "News and Views" section by Stephen J. del Grosso, read the full story here. April 9, 2010
- Sour Showers: Acid Rain Returns--This Time It Is Caused by Nitrogen Emissions: Acid rain is now caused by nitric rather than sulfuric acid--and it comes from more sources than the earlier acidic precipitation did. Article in Scientific American, June 21, 2010, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=acid-rain-caused-by-nitrogen-emissions