Nitrogen oxides, a group of gases from the burning of fossil fuels, is linked to a range of health effects. By Austyn Gaffney A rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday could ...

An international team of researchers has found that nitrogen emissions from fertilizers and fossil fuels have a net cooling effect on the climate. But they warn increasing atmospheric nitrogen has ...

Industry produces gases that are harmful to both humans and the environment and therefore must be prevented from escaping. These include nitric oxide and nitrous oxide, the latter also known as ...

Nitrogen is a crucial component of proteins and nucleic acids, the fundamental building blocks of all living things, and thus is essential to life on Earth. Gaseous N 2 from the atmosphere can be ...

Far below the surface of the Black Sea, in water that never sees daylight and holds almost no oxygen, a quiet climate drama plays out. There, tiny microbes decide how much of a powerful greenhouse gas ...