Experiments published in Food and Energy Security by scientists at Queen Mary University of London and Royal Botanic Gardens suggest that we are globally wasting huge amounts of phosphorus. A ...

Maarten Van Geel, Matthias De Beenhouwer, Tobias Ceulemans, Kenny Caes, An Ceustermans, Dany Bylemans, Ann Gomand, Bart Lievens, Olivier Honnay https://www.jstor.org ...

Struvite, shown here, is a slow-release fertilizer capable of reducing nitrogen and phosphorus leaching relative to monoammonium phosphate, the leading fall-applied fertilizer in the Midwest. In a new ...

Phosphorus, a key ingredient in fertilizers, is running out. The world's food systems depend on phosphorus mined from limited ...

BOZEMAN - Applications of phosphorus fertilizer can increase pea and lentil yield, two Montana State University studies suggest. An MSU experiment on soils containing 12 parts per million of available ...

It's likely that most of the food you'll eat today was not farmed sustainably. The global system of food production is the largest human influence on the planet's natural cycles of nitrogen and ...

(CBS DETROIT) - Phosphorus is a mineral that plants need to grow and complete its life cycle. But in the United States, scientists say phosphorus in our soil is going to deplete within this century.

Fertilizers contain nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K), indicated by three numbers representing their percentage by weight. Nitrogen promotes leafy growth, phosphorus aids energy transfer ...