posted: 07 October 2010 02:25 pm ET. While nitrogen is an element that is essential to life, it is an environmental scourge at high levels. Humans are overloading ecosystems with nitrogen through the ...

Nitrogen is essential to life on Earth. It is a component of all proteins, and it can be found in all living systems. Nitrogen compounds are present in organic materials, foods, fertilizers ...

Nitrogen Cycle: Key Ingredient In ... who works in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division. ... The research was funded by the DOE Office of Science.

Microbes play important role in soil's nitrogen cycle. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 03 / 200311082946.htm ...

Industrial agriculture feeds billions of people and created the modern world. But the nitrogen and phosphorus it’s fertilized with is putting the biosphere, and humanity, at risk.

Since the mid-1900s, humans have been exerting an ever-increasing impact on the global nitrogen cycle. Human activities, such as making fertilizers and burning fossil fuels, have significantly ...