Despite the damage fertilizers can cause, roughly a third of the world’s largest food companies don’t acknowledge any risk, ...

Fertilizers help feed the world, but excessive use is poisoning water, polluting the air and accelerating climate change. Despite the damage fertilizers can cause, roughly a third of the world’s ...

You can leach the soil or growing medium with large quantities of fresh water to wash out the excess fertilizer. You should also remove any damaged or dead foliage. Moving forward, you'll also ...

such as excessive fertilizer use, persist. “Prosperity has been achieved by enhancing crop production through the extensive use of chemical fertilizers,” says Haruko Takeyama, a microbiologist ...

Production of most major crops relies on nitrate and phosphate fertilizers, but excessive fertilizer use harms the environment. If we could use mutually beneficial relationships between plant ...

The impact of excessive phosphorus and nitrogen from fertilizer is a major concern, and the conservation commission is seeking ...

Levels of PFAS in sewage sludge used as fertilizer can pose risks that sometimes exceed safety thresholds “by several orders of magnitude,” the agency said. By Hiroko Tabuchi For the first ...

Did you know that one pound of phosphorus from excessive fertilization can produce anywhere from 300 to 500 pounds of algae if that phosphorus reaches a lake or river? Reducing excessive ...

One of the most significant concerns related to soil amending is nutrient runoff caused by excessive fertilizer use. Fertilizers are particularly high in nitrogen and phosphorus. When these ...

SALEM — Legislation requiring Oregon farms to report fertilizer use is meant to protect groundwater from pollution but critics say it’d only burden growers while generating useless data.