New book: Atmospheric Ammonia - Detecting emission changes and environmental impacts

This book has emerged from an UNECE Expert Workshop in Edinburgh in December 2006 and compiles the state-of-the-art of scientific understanding on emissions, transport and deposition and effects of atmospheric ammonia.

More information can be found here: http://www.springer.com/environment/air/book/978-1-4020-9120-9

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna

"Denitrification in soils under field conditions - advances in quantification, controlling factors and process-based modelling"(SSS41)

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Opening Nitrogen Science to the People

As many of you know, a science communication workshop, organised through the NitroEurope Young Scientists´ Forum and funded by the European Science Foundation and NitroEurope, was held in Madrid in October.

Workshop on Comparison of static chambers to measure N2O, CH4 and CO2 fluxes from soils in Copenhagen

Workshop on Comparison of static chambers to measure N2O, CH4 and CO2 fluxes from soils in Copenhagen 15th - 17th December 2008.

News article "Beyond carbon: Scientists worry about nitrogen's effects"

The Herald Tribune featured an article by Richard Morgan (The New York Times) titled "Beyond carbon: Scientists worry about nitrogen's effects".

Read the full story here.

Nitrogen story in the BBC Green Room

On the 8th of July, the complexity of the Nitrogen cycle has been featured in a BBC Green Room article, read the full story here

Accompanying this article, a Nitrogen Poll was set up at the ESF-NinE website, have a look here

 

ESF Programme Nitrogen in Europe (NinE) - Open call for Travel Grant applications

The purpose of Travel Grants offered by NinE is to encourage networking between scientists with a focus on developing an integrated quantification of nitrogen fluxes in Europe. To be considered suitable for funding, applications should match one or more of the Programme’s objectives.

UNEP Report: Reactive Nitrogen in the Environment - Too Much or Too Little of a Good Thing

Executive summary

Nitrogen is an essential, fundamental building block for life. It is the most plentiful element in the earth’s atmosphere, yet in its molecular form (N2), it is unusable by the vast majority of living organisms. It must be transformed, or fixed, into other forms, collectively known as reactive nitrogen (See Glossary), before it can be used by most plants and animals. Without an adequate supply of nitrogen, crops do not thrive and fail to reach their maximum production potential. In many ecosystems, nitrogen is the limiting element for growth. However, when present in excess, reactive nitrogen causes a range of negative environmental effects, poses risks to human health and consequently can have negative economic and social consequences. This nontechnical review seeks to convey an understanding of the effects of reactive nitrogen in the environment, focusing mainly on those caused by excesses of reactive nitrogen. It also examines experience with some policies developed to address those effects, and offers recommendations to advance understanding and policy responses to them.

UNESCO-SCOPE Policy Brief: Human alteration of the nitrogen cycle - Threats, benefits and opportunities

UNESCO-SCOPE Policy Brief: Human alteration of the nitrogen cycle - Threats, benefits and opportunities

The global nitrogen cycle represents one of the most important nutrient cycles that sustain life on Earth.
Today, humans add 1.5 times more nitrogen than do natural terrestrial processes combined altogether, through a combination of agriculture and fossil fuel use, and unduly influence the global
nitrogen cycle.

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