Microbes
04/03/2018
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By Ralph Flores
What is the right amount of nitrogen in agriculture? Not enough contributes to hunger, too much damages the environment
Nitrogen is essential in crop production, but it comes with a caveat: Use too much of it, and you risk polluting the environment; use too little, and you risk limiting your crop yield. This was also the focus of an article that appeared in the journal Nutrient Cycling in Agrosystems. The paper, led by researchers from […]
12/20/2017
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By Vicki Batts
Agricultural fungicides found to kill the organisms responsible for leaf litter decomposition in streams and rivers
While it’s no secret that agrochemicals are harmful to the environment, scientists are truly just beginning to ascertain the full scope of Big Ag’s detrimental effects. But as a researcher from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) has shown in his doctoral thesis, agrochemicals like fungicides can have disastrous effects on the environment — including […]
07/14/2017
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By Isabelle Z.
Remember the BP Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe? The oil was eaten up by ocean microbes (because Mother Nature heals itself)
When the oil drilling rig, known as Deepwater Horizon, that was operating off the Gulf of Mexico around 40 miles from the Louisiana coast suddenly exploded and sank in April 2010, 11 people died and oil began to spill into the ocean a mile blow its surface. In just three months, the BP Deepwater Horizon […]
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