Fertile Runoff Threatens Environment

Bad News For Coastal Ocean: Less Fish out Means More Nitrogen In

Eric wu submitted, created time 11 months 4 days (www.sciencedaily.com)

A Canada-U.S. research team has found that commercial fisheries play an unexpected role in the decline of water quality in coastal waters. In a recent issue of Nature Geoscience, Roxane Maranger and Nina Caraco explain that the collapse of the fisheries from decades of overfishing has played a significant role in disturbing the balance between nitrogen entering and leaving coastal water systems.

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Acid rain has a disproportionate impact on coastal waters

franklin submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.whoi.edu)

The release of sulfur and nitrogen into the atmosphere by power plants and agricultural activities plays a minor role in making the ocean more acidic on a global scale, but the impact is greatly amplified in the shallower waters of the coastal ocean, according to new research by atmospheric and marine chemists.

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Scientists at the University of Southern California have applied a nanoscale imaging method to a biological system, helping to clear up an old puzzle of the global carbon and nitrogen cycle.

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Scientists at the University of Southern California have applied a nanoscale imaging method to a biological system, helping to clear up an old puzzle of the global carbon and nitrogen cycle.

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New imaging method clarifies nutrient cycle

bianjie submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.eurekalert.org)

Scientists at the University of Southern California have applied a nanoscale imaging method to a biological system, helping to clear up an old puzzle of the global carbon and nitrogen cycle.

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