A new conceptual paper argues that the biomolecular packaging of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, not their elemental ratios ...

The role of nitrates in supporting plant growth is well-known, but nitrates also have negative impacts on ecosystems when ...

Challenge Works has launched the Flush Forward Challenge to tackle sewage and nutrient pollution and water scarcity.

Pollution lingered and water hyacinth spread across Ooty lake after an expensive clean-up, causing habitat loss and a ...

Seagrass meadows are among the most valuable ecosystems on the planet, buffering coastlines, storing carbon at extraordinary rates, and serving as nurseries for commercially important fish. Yet these ...

For decades, scientists have regarded phosphorus as the main nutrient limiting biological production in the Gulf of Bothnia.

Europe's rivers are cleaner than they were a few years ago, but the pace of improvement isn't enough to meet environmental ...

Paracetamol, ibuprofen, carbamazepine, diclofenac, and other pharmaceuticals are being found in the Baltic Sea. Researchers say changing how some medicines are prescribed, used and disposed of could ...

For more than half a century, scientists have used a small lake in northwestern Ontario to study why freshwater ecosystems develop harmful algal blooms. Lake 227, part of the Experimental Lakes Area, ...

Coastal waters sit between land and sea. Rivers carry nutrients from land, while currents bring nutrients from the open ocean, and the balance between those sources can shape what grows near shore.

Integrating Land, Sea, and Human Inputs' led by Washington State University estimates that in about one in four of the planet’s coastal waterways, people now add more nitrogen than all natural sources ...

Analysis of 29 studies highlights potentially heightened danger from small particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide Air pollution is associated with an increased risk of suicide and suicidal thoughts, ...