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ScienceDaily: Nitrogen is vital for all plant life, but increasingly the planet is paying a heavy price for the escalating use of nitrogen fertilizer. Excess nitrogen from fertilizer runoff into rivers and lakes causes algal blooms that create oxygen-depleted dead zones, such as the 6,000 to 7,000 square mile zone in the Gulf of Mexico, and nitrogen in the form of nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas. But new findings by Stanford researchers that reveal the inner workings of ......
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Discovery in legumes could reduce fertilizer use, aid environment
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 1st, 2010
Posted in Water Conservation