Nitrogen is one of the primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible in this form to most ...

Nitrogen is an important component of the global environment, affecting agriculture, climate, human health, and ecosystems. The role of the nitrogen cycle has become more widely appreciated, yet Earth ...

Nitrogen gets around on Earth. The element moves between the atmosphere, oceans, land, crust, and mantle of the planet. But models of this nitrogen cycle are in need of a major update, a group of ...

A study by the University of Basel reveals that climate change could disrupt the natural purification process in lakes, ...

What can volcanism on the early Earth teach us about the formation of life on our planet? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as an international team of ...

Lakes like Lake Baldegg act as natural nitrogen sinks, helping protect downstream ecosystems from nutrient pollution. Climate warming is weakening this important filtering function (Photo: courtesy of ...

As climate change progresses, rising temperatures may impact nitrogen runoff from land to lakes and streams more than projected increases in total and extreme precipitation for most of the continental ...

In the nitrogen cycle, phytoplankton and other marine plants turn nitrate (NO 3) into organic nitrogen during photosynthesis. The organic nitrogen sinks into the deep ocean, where microbes "eat" the ...

Researchers have developed a new framework that uses artificial intelligence to monitor wastewater treatment in real time, ...

What does nitrogen do for plants? Read on to learn how to improve the health of your plants and how to add nitrogen to soil by fixing the nitrogen cycle in your garden. This article is also in audio ...