Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement

NB Basu, KJ Van Meter, DK Byrnes… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Increasing incidences of eutrophication and groundwater quality impairment from
agricultural nitrogen pollution are threatening humans and ecosystem health. Minimal …

A critical review of the impacts of cover crops on nitrogen leaching, net greenhouse gas balance and crop productivity

M Abdalla, A Hastings, K Cheng, Q Yue… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cover crops play an increasingly important role in improving soil quality, reducing
agricultural inputs and improving environmental sustainability. The main objectives of this …

A triple increase in global river basins with water scarcity due to future pollution

M Wang, BL Bodirsky, R Rijneveld, F Beier… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Water security is at stake today. While climate changes influence water availability,
urbanization and agricultural activities have led to increasing water demand as well as …

Impact of groundwater nitrogen legacy on water quality

X Liu, AHW Beusen, HJM van Grinsven, J Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The loss of agricultural nitrogen (N) is a leading cause of global eutrophication and
freshwater and coastal hypoxia. Despite regulatory efforts, such as the European Union's …

Enhanced nitrate-to-ammonia activity on copper–nickel alloys via tuning of intermediate adsorption

Y Wang, A Xu, Z Wang, L Huang, J Li, F Li… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical conversion of nitrate (NO3–) into ammonia (NH3) recycles nitrogen and
offers a route to the production of NH3, which is more valuable than dinitrogen gas …

Elucidating the intrinsic activity and selectivity of Cu for nitrate electroreduction

Z Ren, K Shi, X Feng - ACS Energy Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cu-based catalysts have been widely explored for the electrochemical nitrate reduction
reaction (NO3RR), while the intrinsic activity and selectivity of Cu metal for the NO3RR …

Nitrogen emissions along global livestock supply chains

A Uwizeye, IJM de Boer, CI Opio, RPO Schulte… - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
Global livestock supply chains have significantly altered nitrogen (N) flows over past years,
thereby threatening environmental and human health. Here, we provide a disaggregated …

Recent advancement in water quality indicators for eutrophication in global freshwater lakes

K Suresh, T Tang, MTH Van Vliet… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Eutrophication is a major global concern in lakes, caused by excessive nutrient loadings
(nitrogen and phosphorus) from human activities and likely exacerbated by climate change …

Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

G Blöschl, MFP Bierkens, A Chambel… - Hydrological sciences …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper is the outcome of a community initiative to identify major unsolved scientific
problems in hydrology motivated by a need for stronger harmonisation of research efforts …

Fresh groundwater discharge insignificant for the world's oceans but important for coastal ecosystems

E Luijendijk, T Gleeson, N Moosdorf - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
The flow of fresh groundwater may provide substantial inputs of nutrients and solutes to the
oceans. However, the extent to which hydrogeological parameters control groundwater flow …