LiveScience.com: While nitrogen is an element that is essential to life, it is an environmental scourge at high levels. Humans are overloading ecosystems with nitrogen through the burning of fossil fuels and an increase in nitrogen-producing industrial and agricultural activities, according to a new study. Excess nitrogen from human activities pollutes fresh waters and coastal zones, and may contribute to climate change, according to the study. Nevertheless, such ecological damage could be reduced by ......
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Nitrogen Fingered As Latest Ecosystem Evildoer
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 7th, 2010
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