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Jen
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Jennifer
Calico Rock
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 Posted - Aug 13 2007 : 06:22:47 AM
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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.
More at: http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/ci_6606378
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Nitrogen rivaling CO2 as global climate threat
