A West Virginia University researcher is working to understand and estimate environmental cleanup costs associated with ...

“Excessive application of fertilizer leads to runoff of nitrogen,” he adds, “which can cause algal blooms in rivers and oceans.” These algal blooms consume oxygen in waterways, which can ...

Nutrients from millions of tons of fertilizers the farmers use run off ... for pesticides before they reach the creek. Chemical runoff making its way to the Gulf of Mexico has created a large ...

Nitrogen-based fertilizers provide much-needed crop nutrients, but are a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and environmental damage due to runoff into waterways. To speed up the ...

Researchers from six different universities are working on measuring nitrous oxide emissions from an old CBC broadcast tower ...

nitrogen to the air The dry or solid fertilizers plus liquid non-pressure 28-32% N, on the other hand, can be surface-applied. On sloping cropland, however, they too should be incorporated into the ...

By Gabriella Sotelo for Sentient. Broadcast version by Judith Ruiz-Branch for Illinois News Connection reporting for the ...

Wary of a new federal administration that seeks more environmental deregulation, several groups are suing the state ...

Manures and other organic residuals (e.g., biosolids, food processing wastes) and many commercial fertilizers available to producers contain nitrogen (N). Nitrogen is an important plant nutrient that ...

The light orange in an infrared image shows where this Iowa cornfield has the least nitrogen. Farmers use such images to target fertilizer application to avoid the runoff that pollutes waterways.

When untreated sewage and fertilizers flow into the estuary, they add nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients that drive excessive algal growth. These harmful algal blooms deplete oxygen levels ...