A group of biogeochemists have shown that a rare form of the gas can act as a fingerprint for microbial nitrogen conversion.

Biogeochemists have shown that rare doubly heavy nitrogen-15 molecules act as a natural fingerprint of microbial nitrogen ...

A Greenland mesocosm experiment using nitrogen-15 tracers shows that tundra microbes capture most winter-released nitrogen ...

Six of our nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed—and industrial agriculture are the main culprit. That is what a team of scientists under Johan Rockström reported in an article published in ...

Wastewater-related indicators such as caffeine, sucralose (an artificial sweetener) and pharmaceutical compounds were ...

Newswise — As a crucial agricultural yield-increasing technique in arid and semi-arid regions, plastic film mulching (PFM) has significantly enhanced crop yield and quality by increasing soil ...

Excess nitrogen (N) input to the inland water bodies and marine ecosystem has contributed to a cascade of environmental issues, so N removal pathways are critical in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems ...

Soil organic matter (SOM) consists of diverse biochemical constituents, spanning a spectrum of chemical complexity, and the relative abundance of these substrates influences microbial metabolism and ...

Soil erosion is widely known for degrading land and reducing agricultural productivity. But new research shows it may also play a far more complex and important role in regulating the global nitrogen ...

A research team has found that warming changes where nitrogen is held in flooded rice soil. In a three-year field experiment, ...

Nitrogen fertilizer: an essential component of increased food, feed and fiber production / Arvin R. Mosier, J. Keith Syers, John R. Freney -- Crop, environmental, and management factors affecting ...