Under our feet, in the soil, is a wealth of microbial activity. Just like humans have different metabolisms and food choices, so do those microbes. In fact, microbes play an important role in making ...

Nitrogen is one of the primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible in this form to most ...

Nitrogen cycling in shelf waters is crucial to reduce surplus nutrients, which rivers pour out into the ocean. Yet this process is poorly understood. Scientists from Bremen have now found answers to a ...

Sebastian Haas is a CERE.OCEAN PhD cadidate who leads the research of nitrogen cycle from the Bedford Basin Time Series. Nitrogen is a major nutrient supporting the growth of phytoplankton, which are ...

The authors have discovered that nitrite-oxidizing organisms can convert cyanate (an oxidation product of cyanide and a decomposition product of urea) into ammonium (the protonated form of ammonia) ...