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Even if agricultural practices were upgraded today to stop nitrogen runoff, scientists estimate it would take upwards of 30 years to deplete the legacy nitrate stored in the Mississippi River Basin...

The world is using nitrogen fertilizer less and less efficiently, and the fallout is devastating — dead zones, toxic algal blooms, and collapsing aquatic ecosystems. Yale School of Forestry & E...

New research from the American Geophysical Union finds man-made phosphorus pollution is reaching dangerously high levels in freshwater basins worldwide — with 38% of Earth’s land surface exceeding ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota are capturing nitrogen and phosphorus from agricultural runoff and converting it into a slow-release microalgae-based biofertilizer — a promising approach...