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ScienceDaily: It's no secret that China is faced with some of the world's worst pollution. Until now, however, information on the magnitude, scope and impacts of a major contributor to that pollution -- human-caused nitrogen emissions -- was lacking.
A new study co-authored by Stanford Woods Institute biologist Peter Vitousek reveals that amounts of nitrogen (from industry, cars and fertilizer) deposited on land and water in China by way of rain, dust and other carriers increased by 60 percent annually from......
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Key component of China’s pollution problem: Scale of nitrogen’s effect on people and ecosystems reveal
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 27th, 2013
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