A new study finds that most phosphorus stakeholders—representing a wide swath of industry, agriculture, environmental and policy interests—have significant doubts about the long-term sustainability of existing phosphorus ...
Environment
Jul 5, 2023
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The same phosphorous that fertilizes the thriving agriculture of the Midwest is also responsible for a vast "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico near the Mississippi Delta. Efforts to reduce the amount of phosphorus that enters ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2024
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We've all heard about the magical combination of being in the right place at the right time. Well for fertilizer, it's more accurate to say it should be in the right place at the right rate. A group of Canadian scientists ...
Environment
Apr 24, 2019
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Researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala are investigating the impact of phosphorous—both that which exists naturally in soil and that which has been added as manure or fertilizer—on ...
Ecology
Sep 11, 2023
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All living things - from bacteria and fungi to plants and animals - need phosphorus. But extra phosphorus in the wrong place can harm the environment. For example, when too much phosphorus enters a lake or stream, it can ...
Environment
Apr 19, 2017
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Throughout the United States, toxic algal blooms are wreaking havoc on bodies of water, causing pollution and having harmful effects on people, fish and marine mammals.
Environment
Nov 22, 2017
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Dietary changes since the early 1960s have fueled a sharp increase in the amount of mined phosphorus used to produce the food consumed by the average person over the course of a year, according to a new study led by researchers ...
Environment
Jan 17, 2013
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Reducing the runoff from plant nutrients that can eventually wash into the Chesapeake Bay could someday be as easy as checking the weather forecast, thanks in part to work by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
Environment
Aug 18, 2010
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Cutting phosphorus runoff into Lake Erie enough to prevent harmful algae outbreaks would require sweeping changes on the region's farms that may include converting thousands of acres of cropland into grassland, scientists ...
Environment
Mar 22, 2016
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Widespread adoption by dairy farmers of injecting manure into the soil instead of spreading it on the surface could be crucial to restoring Chesapeake Bay water quality, according to researchers who compared phosphorus runoff ...
Environment
Feb 7, 2019
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