Nitrogen pollution is a serious concern for the agriculture industry. Agricultural fertilizers contain nitrogen, an essential nutrient for plant health. However, these fertilizers also produce ...

Scientists have successfully enhanced cultivation of a microorganism that can fix nitrogen (N2) while producing methane (CH4) and ammonia (NH3) and investigated exciting details of its metabolism.

Direct coupling of two molecules of nitrogen: chemists have achieved what was thought to be impossible. This new reaction opens new possibilities for one of the most inert molecules on earth.

View of nitrogen fertilizer being applied to growing corn (maize) in a contoured, no-tilled field in Hardin County, Iowa. Source - USDA/Photo no. NRCSIA99241 by Lynn Betts. Public Domain View of ...

Researchers examined the saturation of gaseous nitrogen (N2) in 34 lakes in the upper Midwestern United States and found that 85.8% of the 247 water column samples from the lakes were supersaturated ...

While our atmosphere is primarily composed of nitrogen, thankfully, it also contains oxygen. Water also plays a significant ...

Regenerating tropical forests pull carbon dioxide from the air, but a lack of nitrogen in the soil could slow this process, a new Nature Communications study has found. Restoring tropical forests is ...

Researchers in Sri Lanka are studying how atmospheric nitrogen pollution affects lichens as a proxy for vegetation, to better understand how plants and soil are coping with the increasing volumes of ...