Sewage-Derived Nitrogen Increasingly Polluting Caribbean Ecosystems
Monday, May 16, 2011 - 17:00
in Earth & Climate
A study published in Global Change Biology finds that while fertilizer has been the dominant source of nitrogen pollution in Caribbean coastal ecosystems for the past 50 years, such pollution is on the decline. Now, sewage-derived nitrogen is increasingly becoming the top source of such pollution in those areas.