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.

Boundary 2: No more than 11 million tonnes of phosphorus to flow into the oceans per year Current level: 9 million tonnes per year Diagnosis: Boundary not yet exceeded Nitrogen ...

This water loss was found as both an increased evapotranspiration rate and a reduced soil moisture content of the area fertilized with nitrogen only. Contrary, when both nitrogen and phosphorus ...

Ellen R. Herbert, Joseph P. Schubauer-Berigan, Christopher B. Craft, Effects of 10 yr of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on carbon and nutrient cycling in a tidal freshwater marsh, Limnology and ...

New research shows that rising ocean temperatures will upset natural cycles of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and phosphorus. Plankton plays an important role in the ocean's carbon cycle by removing ...