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Nitrate concentrations of ground water increasing in many areas of the United States
Sep 17, 2008 |
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Nitrate is the most common chemical contaminant in the world's ground water, including in aquifers used for drinking-water supply. Nitrate in drinking water of the United States is regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
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Is your drinking water safe?
Feb 28, 2008 |
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Lake Bloomington is a major source of drinking water for residents of Bloomington, IL, and has a history of nitrate concentrations that exceed safe levels. Because Lake Bloomington has a record of elevated nitrate levels, ...
Nitrate stimulates greenhouse gas production in small streams
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas that has been accumulating in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution. It is well known that fertilizer can stimulate nitrous oxide production in soils, but less is known about ...
Research supports calls to study health benefits of nitrate, nitrite
Aug 20, 2009 |
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A Michigan State University researcher is challenging health standards that consider nitrates and nitrites in food to be harmful.
Ultra-fine coatings on sediment grains influence nitrate and sulfate storage in soil
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Tiny sediment grains are covered with a very fine-grained, complex mixture of minerals in an open fabric that results in a large surface area in contact with water between the grains. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey ...
Large source of nitrate, a potential water contaminant, found in near-surface desert soils
Feb 29, 2008 |
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A UC Riverside-led study in the Mojave Desert, Calif., has found that soils under “desert pavement” have an unusually high concentration of nitrate, a type of salt, close to the surface. Vulnerable to erosion ...
Measuring nitrate concentrations in leafy green vegetables
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Leafy green vegetables such as lettuce, Asian greens, and spinach can accumulate high concentrations of nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N), which are potentially harmful if consumed by humans. To measure NO3-N concentration in plant ...
Models simulate nitrate dynamics in Garonne, Southwest France
Jan 05, 2009 |
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The over-enrichment of fresh, transitional, and marine waters with nitrogen (N) can lead to problems associated with eutrophication, such as a change in species composition of aquatic plants and nuisance algal blooms. In ...
Cropland diversity reduces nitrogen pollution
Feb 11, 2009 |
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LSU researchers have identified a link between the diversity of crops grown in farmlands and the pollution they create in lakes and rivers. In a Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment e-View paper, these ecologists show t ...
Iron and biological production in the high-latitude North Atlantic
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Southampton scientists have demonstrated an unexpected role of iron in regulating biological production in the high-latitude North Atlantic. Their findings have important implications for our understanding of ocean-climate ...
Chloride In Big Darby Creek Has Increased Three-Fold In Past 40 Years
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Oct 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chloride levels in central Ohio’s Big Darby Creek were three times higher in 2007 than the levels recorded in the late 1960s, and have more than doubled since 1992, according to an analysis conducted at Ohio ...
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