Hundreds of dairies in the Central Valley are racing toward a March 2021 deadline to complete plans for managing nitrate runoff and for providing safe drinking water to impacted communities. “It's ...

Safe and affordable drinking water remains elusive in the San Joaquin Valley. (photo: Department of Water Resources) Environmental justice advocates are growing frustrated with California’s pace in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The sessile lifestyle of plants constrains their ability to acquire mobile nutrients such as nitrate. Whereas proliferation of roots might ...

The aim of the EU Nitrates Directive is to reduce nitrates leaking into the environment in order to prevent pollution of water supplies. The widely accepted view is that this will also help protect ...

Epidemiologists often use a retrospective study design to examine for associations between an exposure and the occurrence of adverse health effects. Several of these studies used this approach to ...

In Minnesota, warning flags are up because harmful nitrates are contaminating surface waters and private wells. See McVan, Agriculture pollutes underground drinking water in Minnesota. Well owners pay ...

Several groups are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to take emergency action to reduce nitrate levels in groundwater in eight southeast Minnesota counties. Eleven national and local ...

Hypocotyl collar rot in chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.) may increase the variability in germination results between seed laboratories resulting in tests being out of tolerance. A study was conducted ...