After more than a decade of inquiry, a team of scientists has turned the tables on a long-standing controversy to re-establish an old truth about nitrogen mixing in the oceans. After more than a ...

During combustion - one of the most popular industrial processes across all industry sectors - the chemical energy in fuels, such as natural gas, coal, or oil, is converted into heat by oxidization.

In the new cycle of AMPs in the UK, the Environment Agency (EA) is starting to impose total nitrogen limits in accordance with the European Urban Wastewater Directive for nutrient sensitive zones.

Water is a vital resource for sustaining all life forms; however, increasing population pressures, urbanisation, and industrial expansion have significantly strained its availability and quality. The ...

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) is an efficient and economically feasible microbial process for removing nitrogen from wastewater 1,2. Anammox was first described by Mulder and his colleagues ...

Human activities add large quantities of nitrogen to the environment, much of which gets washed into streams and rivers. These waterways transport some of that nitrogen to the oceans, but they also ...

Lakes like Lake Baldegg act as natural nitrogen sinks, helping protect downstream ecosystems from nutrient pollution. Climate warming is weakening this important filtering function (Photo: courtesy of ...

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