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Nitrogen pollution knows no bounds

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Boyle, Edward A
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Abstract
In recent decades, the flow of fixed—that is, biologically usable—nitrogen from human activities into the environment has grown substantially. The sources include excess production and use of nitrogen fertilizers; ammonia emitted from animal husbandry and sewage; and nitrogen oxides emitted by automobiles, airplanes, and fossil fuel power plants. The resulting nitrogen flux into the ocean may approach the magnitude of natural sources (1–3). However, it is difficult to specify the integrated increase over natural sources precisely because there is very little data for when nitrogen sources were mostly natural. On page 749 of this issue, Ren et al. use the nitrogen isotope composition of a 50-year coral core from the South China Sea to show that the natural upwelling flux of fixed nitrogen has risen by 20% during the past two decades (4).
Date issued
2017-05
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120545
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Journal
Science
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Citation
Boyle, Edward. “Nitrogen Pollution Knows No Bounds.” Science 356, 6339 (May 2017): 700–701 © 2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Version: Author's final manuscript
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0036-8075
1095-9203

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