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Posted - Aug 13 2007 : 06:22:47 AM Nitrogen Overdose: Element quietly rivaling CO2 as a global climate threat By Suzanne Bohan
ON AN OVERCAST DAY in April, Stuart Weiss stood in the rolling hills of a Bay Area nature preserve and lifted a bag of nitrogen-based fertilizer to his shoulder.
The heavy sack, the Menlo Park ecologist explained to a small crowd gathered before him, symbolized the unprecedented release of nitrogen into the Earths air, land and water, and the insidious environmental changes under way globally from the potent fertilizer.
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