Environment

A sustainable planet needs scientists to think ahead

Globalization means that Earth's life-support system can no longer be treated as separate from the socio

Publication Date: 
02/12/2010
Sybil Seitzinger
Nature
45
48
601
Tags:
Environment, Sustainable Development, Global, Globalisation, Ecology, Global Environmental Agreements
Climate Change

Nitrogen cycle: Out of reach

Denitrifying bacteria and hungry plants do sterling work in disposing of the nitrates that we pump into rivers and streams.

Publication Date: 
13/03/2008
Sybil Seitzinger
Nature
452
7184
162
Tags:
Land Use, Agriculture, Rivers, Oceans and Seas, Oxides Of Nitrogen (NOx), Nitrogen Dioxide, Atmosphere Science, Climate Change, Carbon Sinks, Research