Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have studied how polymer-coated fertilizer (PCF) applied to fields ends up on ...

Fertilizer is one of the quiet workhorses of the global food system, yet it is also a major driver of climate pollution. The emerging evidence is that if governments price the emissions from ...

The U.S. Department of Energy had a vision: Slash in half the amount of a potent greenhouse gas that enters the atmosphere when growing corn and sorghum for biofuel. That gas — nitrous oxide — mostly ...

Soil should be alive and it is a fact that chemical fertilizers kill the microbial activity in soil. Do we really need ...

Scientists at UC Davis have developed wheat plants that stimulate the production of their own fertilizer, opening the path toward less air and water pollution worldwide and lower costs for farmers.

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Plastic-coated fertilizers used on farms are emerging as a major but hidden source of ocean microplastics. A new study found ...