Nitrogen is one of the primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible in this form to most ...

Stanford, CA— Nitrogen is essential to all life on Earth, and the processes by which it cycles through the environment may determine how ecosystems respond to global warming. But certain aspects of ...

Nitrogen rich soils in China’s rice paddies could help farmers grow the same amount of rice with less fertilizer, if we can ...

A team of scientists has shown that rice paddies in two of China's most important grain producing regions release soil nitrogen in strikingly ...