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Bit Player Turns Out to Be the Star

The trace element molybdenum, and not that poseur phosphorous, governs the profligacy of your average tropical rainforest. 

Is Nitrogen the New Carbon?

A discussion with ecologist Alan Townsend on mankind's love-hate relationship with nitrogen, and how this marriage can be saved.

Ecologist Dismisses ‘Ethanol Solution’

Townsend notes that producing corn for ethanol use requires intensively fertilized fields, which produce "the forgotten greenhouse gas."