Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas and the dominant ozone-depleting substance from human activities.
Better management, from sustainable agriculture practices to nutrient recycling, can cut pollution & protect the planet.
More on how to #BeatNitrogenPollution: https://ow.ly/2v7P50Ytwgk
While governments struggle in a failure to agree resolutions at #UNEA7, singer Antoinette Taus brought a message of hope with her new song #People&Planet. We spoke afterwards...
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#SDGs #rap
#UNEA7, civil society prepares to make its point on plastic pollution. Read between the lines and just the same issues on transparency are emerging in discussions about nitrogen pollution... More news expected this week.
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#Stickstoff ist lebenswichtig. Aber wir fluten den Planeten mit zu viel am falschen Ort und sprengen so die #PlanetarenGrenzen Die Vereinten Nation klären inzwischen auch auf #beatnitrogenpollution - das Gute: Das geht und wir wissen wie 💡 #nitrogen
When addressing the climate crisis, the focus often centers only on carbon dioxide emissions and methane.
Yet, nitrous oxide is 300 times more potent and remains active in the atmosphere for more than 100 years.
Urgent action is needed to #BeatNitrogenPollution: www.unep.org/interactives...
"Ammonia now dominates oceanic reactive nitrogen deposition in coastal regions where the country has much higher ammonia emissions than oxidized nitrogen emissions"...
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Overfertilization causes soil to become acidic, negatively affecting crop production. Reducing the use of agrochemicals is essential to protecting food systems.
Check out UNEP’s efforts to #BeatNitrogenPollution: unep.org/interactives...
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About 80% of the 200 million tonnes of reactive nitrogen is lost to the environment annually, benefiting nitrogen-tolerant species at the expense of more sensitive ones.
Critical action is needed to #BeatNitrogenPollution and safeguard our biodiversity: unep.org/interactives...
Exciting discovery and an amazing new word: photochemodenitrification !
Light induced conversion of nitrite to nitrous oxide. Nothing to laugh about.
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The image features a black-and-white background with leafless trees over a distorted, wavy pattern. The text reads “Nitrous oxide is 300 times more potent at warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.” with “300 times more potent” highlighted in yellow. The UN Environment Programme logo is in the top right corner.
When addressing the climate crisis, the focus often centers only on carbon dioxide emissions and methane.
Yet, nitrous oxide is 300 times more potent and remains active in the atmosphere for more than 100 years.
Urgent action is needed to #BeatNitrogenPollution: www.unep.org/interactives...
Indeed it looks like the investment in upscaling ammonia as a fuel is going faster than demonstration that this can be done with acceptably low ammonia, nitrogen oxides and nitrous oxide emissions.
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Here is a connection that warrants further study:
- toxins from algal blooms suggested to disorient whales
- nitrogen & phosphorus pollution increase algal blooms
Implication: nitrogen pollution is bad for whales!
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@UNEP is this new or already known?
"Under stress, corals produce too much nitrogen"...
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Saving the Scottish salmon.
Watch the amazing film by Phil Ellis, this year's @tweed_forum
#river #champion.
@RiverTweedNews #MakeItHappen #EverywhereAndInvisible #BeatNitrogenPollution
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Ein Meer aus Brennnesseln, Foto: Anne Preger
Dank menschlicher Stickstoff-Überdüngung der Natur sind früher artenreiche Wegränder ein 'Schlaraffenland' für schnell wachsende Brennnesseln #FotoVorschlag - wer mehr wissen will … es gibt da ein 📕 dazu.. #beatnitrogenpollution
Neue Studie: #Seen kippen nicht nur um, wenn sie zu viel Phosphat abkriegen - #Stickstoff ist ein entscheidender Treiber für das Algenwachstum in flachen Seen (= weltweit die meisten) => Höchste Zeit für mehr Schutz von Seen und Flüssen vor Düngerresten aus der Landwirtschaft #beatnitrogenpollution
NEW: Wie lässt sich die Verschmutzung durch zu viel reaktiven #Stickstoff in Europa halbieren - das JRC legt Szenarien vor #beatnitrogenpollution
