Phosphorus threatens a key bay in Lake Champlain. WAMC’s North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley reports on the Lake Champlain Basin program and other stakeholder’s efforts to stem the pollution.
Growing global demand for sustainable agriculture is driving scientists to find smarter ways to handle livestock waste. A new ...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. - Phosphorus makes agriculture and civilization as we know it happen. It is a basis for all plant life, especially in crop production. Farmers have put the availability of phosphorus ...
Tile drainage is a common practice used in agricultural fields to remove excess water, but it also transports harmful nutrients into water bodies, contributing to algal blooms that deprive aquatic ...
Brett Laney can control the Rock Creek facility’s operations by computer. HILLSBORO, Ore. — An innovative process that turns wastewater into phosphorous fertilizer granules is simplifying Oregon’s ...
Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are essential nutrients for all living organisms. Soil, fertilizer, and manure are all sources of N and P to growing crops. Atmospheric deposition (the air we breathe ...
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As a retired civil engineer who specialized in projects involving water quality and quantity, I have the following comments about the article titled “Tinkering with a pollutant, Colorado ranch seeks ...
To forge carbon-carbon bonds between two aryl groups, chemists typically turn to metal-catalyzed cross-couplings—powerful transformations that garnered their inventors the 2010 Nobel Prize in ...
For decades, phosphorus has accumulated in Wisconsin soils. Though farmers have taken steps to reduce the quantity of the agricultural nutrient applied to and running off their fields, a new study ...
After years of planning and pressure, Vermont officials began adding a compound mix that binds phosphorus in the water, which ...