Tag Archive for 'Fertilizer'

Using satellite data and models, Barkley et al identified a previously underestimated source of soluble phosphorus: biomass burning aerosol transported from southern Africa that can supply phosphorus to the Amazon, Tropical Atlantic and Southern oceans. Image credit: Scite / University of Miami.

Smoke from African Fires is Fertilizing Amazon Rainforest, Atlantic and Southern Oceans: Study

Aug 2, 2019 by News Staff

Smoke from fires in southern Africa is the largest contributor of phosphorus — an important agricultural fertilizer — to the Amazon rainforest,...

World’s Largest Macroalgal Bloom Discovered

Jul 5, 2019 by News Staff

Free-floating mats of brown macroalgae called Sargassum in the center of the North Atlantic were first reported by Christopher Columbus in the 15th century...

Left: Neolithic hulled barley grain from Koufovouno (Amy Bogaard et al). Right: partial ear of naked barley from Hornstaad-Hoernle, south-west Germany (Ian Cartwright / Oxford University)

European Neolithic Farmers Used Fertilizers 8,000 Years Ago, Study Shows

Jul 16, 2013 by News Staff

According to an international team of researchers led by Dr Amy Bogaard from the University of Oxford, Europe’s first farmers manured and watered...

Elevated levels of the Nitrogen-15 isotope detected in plant macrofossils from a Neolithic farming village near Falköping, Sweden, indicate that its inhabitants may have used fertilizers to grow barley and wheat (Agricultural Research Service / Usda.gov)

Stone Age Scandinavians May Have Used Fertilizers 5,000 Years Ago

Apr 30, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a new research by archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg, inhabitants of a small Neolithic farming village located in modern-day...