A 60-year study covering 205 countries and regions worldwide has systematically uncovered the evolutionary patterns of ...

Phosphorus pollution can linger for decades in soils and streams, shaping water quality long after sources are reduced.

Phosphorus is integral to agriculture and human life. We can’t grow any of our food without it. Of the phosphorus fertilizers applied, perhaps 20% ends up consumed in the final product. Large amounts ...

At a wastewater treatment forum on Wednesday, the ministry said that Taiwan loses up to 6,000 tonnes of phosphorus annually ...

In the fall of 1802, the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt arrived in Callao, Peru’s major port, just west of Lima. Humboldt had timed his visit to coincide with a transit of Mercury, which he ...

Enhanced phosphorus burial under anoxic conditions could have significant oceanographic and atmospheric implications, given the importance of phosphorus levels for oceanic productivity and the ...

With the rapid development of industrialization, large amounts of toxic and harmful gases such as NO2, CO, and NH3 are emitted during industrial ...

Plants can't do without phosphorus. But there is often a 'withdrawal limit' on how much phosphorus they can get from the soil. A new study looks at how liming, soil management history and enzymes ...

Phosphorus plays a central role for life on Earth. It is an intimate part of life’s architecture, contained in the salts that stiffen vertebrate bones and in phospholipids that form the walls of all ...