nitrogen

Global Warming, a Dead Zone and Mysterious Bacteria

A submerged carrousel of collector tubes begins its descent to the oxygen minimum zone off of Mexico's Pacific coast. Credit: Dr. Heather Olins
Aug 03, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
While global warming shrinks ice caps, it's expanding “oxygen minimum zones,” where newly discovered bacteria are depleting waters of nitrogen, a nutrient essential to life. This could be creating imbalances.

A Fertilizer Dearth Foiled Animal Evolution for Eons?

Close-up view of layered sedimentary rocks representative of those used in this study. Each layer records a snapshot of the Earth system over millions to billions of years. Credit: Georgia Tech / Yale - Reinhard / Planavsky
Dec 21, 2016 - Atlanta, GA
Evolution's genesis moment: Phosphorus, oxygen and the explosion of new, diverse life
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