Nitrogen is a key nutrient because it fuels the growth of plankton, which forms the basis of the marine food web. Two ...

Fossil plankton shells show that three million years ago, under warmer climate, nitrogen fixation was reduced. • About 3 million years ago: During the warm late Pliocene, nitrogen fixation in the ...

Nitrogen is an essential element required by all life — vital for plant and animal growth and nourishment. But, an overabundance of nitrogen can cause negative ecological effects. Over the past ...

Nitrogen may not get the same level of attention as its neighbors on the periodic table, carbon and oxygen. But like its neighbors, it's an element we can't live without. Nitrogen compounds have ...

Coastal waters that feed billions of people with food, jobs and recreation are being pushed past their limits by a surge of ...

Accounting for nitrogen (N) in healthy soils just got more interesting! Our old school diagrams on the Nitrogen Cycle are mostly outdated. Old nitrogen cycle diagrams mostly showed inorganic forms ...

Nitrogen fertilizer: an essential component of increased food, feed and fiber production / Arvin R. Mosier, J. Keith Syers, John R. Freney -- Crop, environmental, and management factors affecting ...

Carbon cycle feedback: When it comes to understanding the forests' role in both giving off and capturing carbon dioxide, those are three words that contain a lot of science. In a new study, ...

Nitrogen is an essential component of all living organisms and the main nutrient limiting life on our planet. Its availability depends on diverse nitrogen-transforming reactions that are carried out ...

Climate change is not only warming the planet and disrupting rainfall, it is also quietly rewiring the way nitrogen moves through the world’s croplands, forests, and grasslands. This hidden shift in ...