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Nitrogen overdose

researchers have known since the 1960s that nitrogenous fertilisers run-off severely affects lakes and rivers. Recently published studies show a bleaker picture. Polluting waterways of the world and displacing mineral nutrients from forest soils will result in wide-scale destruction of both forest and marine ecosystems.

Nitrogenous compounds such as ammonia and nitrous oxides ( no x )

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