New Way of Removing Excess Nitrogen from the Environment

New Way of Removing Excess Nitrogen from the Environment
Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:45:00 -0500

Excess nitrogen from agricultural and urban lands is contaminating groundwater, streams, lakes and estuaries, where it causes harmful algal blooms and contributes to fish kills.

Cost-effective approaches to removing this nitrogen from croplands and urban stormwater runoff before it reaches sensitive water bodies have been elusive.

But simple and inexpensive technologies are on the horizon. A recent scientific workshop on denitrification brought together ecologists, engineers and ...

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