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 …

Thirty years of experience in water pollution control in Taihu Lake: A review

X Yan, Y **a, C Ti, J Shan, Y Wu, X Yan - Science of The Total Environment, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Taihu Lake has suffered from eutrophication and algal blooms for decades, primarily due to
increasing anthropogenic pollutants from human activities. Extensive research and …

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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Role of nitrogen (N) in plant growth, photosynthesis pigments, and N use efficiency: A

A Fathi - Agrisost, 2022‏ - researchgate.net
Context: N is the vital element for the growth and development of plants out of all the
required nutritious compounds. This element plays a key role in most plant metabolic …

Unveiling microbial nitrogen metabolism in rivers using a machine learning approach

Y Jia, X Hu, W Kang, X Dong - Environmental Science & …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Microbial nitrogen metabolism is a complicated and key process in mediating environmental
pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in rivers. However, the interactive drivers of …

Maximizing US nitrate removal through wetland protection and restoration

FY Cheng, KJ Van Meter, DK Byrnes, NB Basu - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Growing populations and agricultural intensification have led to raised riverine nitrogen (N)
loads, widespread oxygen depletion in coastal zones (coastal hypoxia) and increases in the …

Legacy nitrogen may prevent achievement of water quality goals in the Gulf of Mexico

KJ Van Meter, P Van Cappellen, NB Basu - Science, 2018‏ - science.org
In August 2017, the Gulf of Mexico's hypoxic zone was declared to be the largest ever
measured. It has been estimated that a 60% decrease in watershed nitrogen (N) loading …

Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters

D Breitburg, LA Levin, A Oschlies, M Grégoire… - Science, 2018‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND Oxygen concentrations in both the open ocean and coastal waters have
been declining since at least the middle of the 20th century. This oxygen loss, or …