Scientists at climate talks say major changes to the nitrogen cycle cannot be ignored Date: December 8, 2009 Source: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) ...

How Humans Have Disrupted The Nitrogen Cycle Date: June 5, 2009 Source: Brown University Summary: Researchers have found a new proxy to measure the impact of fossil fuel emissions on the global ...

Trammell was recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study nitrogen cycling in forests, specifically smaller forest patches found in suburban and urban areas. Through the Haber-Bosch ...

The nitrogen cycle — which has existed for billions of years — transforms non-biologically useful forms of nitrogen found in the atmosphere into various biologically useful forms that are needed by ...

The nitrogen cycle, ... Live Science contributor. Additional resources. This website describes what happens when you try to put different objects into liquid nitrogen.

With humans having an increasing impact on the planet, the interactions between the nitrogen cycle, ... Denman, K. L. et al. in Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis.

But models of this nitrogen cycle are in need of a major update, a group of biogeochemists says. ... DOI: 10.1126/science.aan4399). The implications of this omission are unclear, ...

Textbook diagrams of the nitrogen cycle now show only microbes performing that task, Hipkin and his colleagues say in the July 1 Nature. Science News headlines, in your inbox ...

As the world’s population grows and releases more nitrogen, the hidden parts of its cycle may come painfully to light. [Image via Wikipedia ] Click here to go to the full Science Tattoo Emporium.

Industrial agriculture feeds billions of people and created the modern world. But the nitrogen and phosphorus it’s fertilized with is putting the biosphere, and humanity, at risk.

Carbon cycle feedback: When it comes to understanding the forests' role in both giving off and capturing carbon dioxide, those are three words that contain a lot of science. In a new study ...

Without nitrogen to fertilize crops, the world couldn’t feed itself. But if humanity doesn’t cut back on the nitrogen it pumps into the environment, we could choke the oceans and ourselves.