Excessive Reactive Nitrogen in Environment Alarms Environmental ...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Sun, 05/18/2008 - 04:30

The problem of excessive reactive nitrogen in the environment is little-known beyond a growing circle of environmental scientists who study how the element cycles through the environment and negatively alters local and global ecosystems and potentially harms human health.

Two new papers by leading environmental scientists bring the problem to the forefront in the journal Science.


 

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