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Dr. Kim Van Meter

@vanmeterkvm.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof @PSUgeography @PSUEarth, exploring human impacts on water under changing climate and land use. she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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AGU Distributed Sensing Technical Committee @agu-sensing.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
📄 Recent study explored trade-offs in sampling density vs frequency for the spatial stability of surface water quality patterns over time, across over 250 monitoring sites sampled over two decades. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... doi.org/10.1029/2024... #hydrology #WaterQuality ⚒️ 🧪
Photo of Figure 3 from paper: Spatial stability of water quality: (a) at each sampling date in the entire watershed; and (b) versus the number of sampled sites for each sampling date across the 5 focal parameters. Solid horizontal lines in each panel indicate the threshold between high and low spatial stability of rss = 0.50
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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 06/10/2025
Newly published research indicates that poor water quality can drastically affect air quality—an observation with important implications for global waterways. Read more about how pollution in the Tijuana River impacts nearby communities: bit.ly/3KuchfZ
University of California, San Diego Research and Development Engineer Greg Sandstrom takes measurements with a Coriolis air sampler at the river hotspot. Photo credit: Beatriz Klimeck/UC San Diego.
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cleveland.com @cleveland.com · 02/10/2025
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources will release 2,000 fingerling sturgeon into the Cuyahoga River, hoping that in 15 to 20 years they will come back to reproduce.
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Once abundant Lake Erie fish to be stocked Saturday at three Cuyahoga River sites
The sturgeon population in Lake Erie was depleted starting in the 1800s and now efforts are underway to bring it back.
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Mathew Wells @efdtoronto.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
New paper on winter limnology of Lake Ontario now out- “Unique thermal mixing patterns in Lake Ontario revealed by novel year-round observations of thermal stratification” Open access link at aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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GV Wire • News @gvwire.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Case against a Tulare County groundwater agency for allegedly not paying its share to fix the sinking Friant-Kern Canal will continue. gvwire.com/2025/10/06/f...
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Friant Lawsuit Over Sinking Canal Advances, but It May Be Individual Farmers Who Pay
The ongoing case against a Tulare County groundwater agency for allegedly not paying its share to fix the Friant-Kern Canal will continue,
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Circle of Blue @circleofblue.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
EPA extends deadline for coal power plants to comply with water pollution standards. The Federal Water Tap newsletter gives you access to the latest U.S. government water policy trends: www.circleofblue.org/water-tap/ #CircleofBlue #WaterNews #WaterPolicy #EPA
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Federal Water Tap
Weekly water news in the United States
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Dr. Sarah Fortner @erthsarah.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Well said, Carrie Jennings, Freshwater Policy Director reflecting on the policy landscape for data centers. “what we currently lack is a very clear path for stakeholders to figure out who to talk to” when it comes to standing up for their communities.” www.womenspress.com/data-center-...
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DATA CENTER SERIES: The Impact on Minnesota Waters
Residents worry that the data center will overshadow their own water needs, especially in the summer months. Tract developers convinced city officials to let data centers use municipal water supplies ...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
91 years is a good long run for most but too short for someone like Jane Goodall. Damn.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This morning, during some chaos, this zipped by on one of my feeds. Maybe it was here? Hard to overstate how much this made my day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-...
"Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million, providing ecological benefits including improved water quality, enhanced biodiversity, and better water retention."
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Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB) @igb-berlin.de · 29/09/2025
💧 Maria Warter is launching her project ‘Water-conscious cities of the future’. Her junior research group wants to investigate how urban waters respond to human intervention and how restoration measures improve biodiversity, water quality and urban life. 🌿 More: www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/bode...
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The Bode Foundation is funding 'Water-conscious cities of the future'
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Robert Hirschfeld @rfhirschfeld.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A new study finds over 70% of Illinois wetlands lost protection after the Supreme Court’s rollback of the Clean Water Act. Floodplain forests—vital for flood control, water quality, and climate resilience—are most at risk. Illinois needs to pass a state law protecting wetlands.
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Study: 72% of Illinois wetlands no longer protected by federal Clean Water Act – News Bureau
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Iowa Capital Dispatch @iowacapitaldispatch.com · 30/09/2025
The Izaak Walton League of America’s Iowa division has started a grassroots campaign to raise funds for a water quality monitoring program, formerly funded by the state, at the University of Iowa, Cami Koons reports.
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Izaak Walton League launches fundraising campaign for Iowa water quality monitoring • Iowa Capital Dispatch
The Izaak Walton League of America has started a campaign to raise funds for a water quality monitoring program.
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Performance Materials Lab @performancematlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The environment here is stunning, but the work is serious—understanding the local water quality is vital for the community and our planet's health. Big thanks to the locals for their support! #WaterResearch #NomeAlaska #Sustainability #EnvironmentalScience #DrRogerTipton #CleanWater
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Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Iowa's water quality issue—and how the Iowa Farm Bureau has shaped the state's lack of regulation—is now national. Bloomberg's piece is paywalled, but you can watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KXO...
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America’s Big Agriculture Problem Is Getting Worse
YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Shocking but not surprising the way this government hands the dairy industry a licence to pollute👇 More than 3500 rivers, lakes and estuaries across Aotearoa are under pressure, with new data showing widespread faecal contamination and poor water quality — especially in areas of intensive land use.
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New data reveals widespread contamination in New Zealand's waterways
Two-thirds of monitored river sites and half of groundwater bores were affected by faecal contamination, while two-thirds of lakes were rated in poor or very poor condition.
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Ireland’s natural environment in ‘very poor’ condition, EU analysis finds - water quality, habitats and species all suffering www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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Ireland’s natural environment in ‘very poor’ condition, EU analysis finds
European Environment Report - news (analysis piece to follow) Embargoed to Sunday night 11pm
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/04/2025
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Lisa Rothstein. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/QAnwGsj
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Marta Soligo @tourismarta.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A few weeks ago, I shared with the students of my “International Tourism” course this interesting, but worrisome, article. Key West in Florida has been studying how cruise ships docking affect the quality of water: it stirs up as much as sediment as a hurricane. www.npr.org/transcripts/...
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In Key West, testing shows cruise ships stir up as much sediment as a hurricane
Tests in Key West show sediment stirred up by cruise ships, which can harm marine life, routinely exceed federal standards. Key West has responded by suspending the tests.
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Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · 07/04/2025
Beavers improve water quality Several studies have found that beaver ponds reduce nitrogen pollution in watercourses – with many of the nitrates digested by the bacteria in the pond and others trapped by the sediments. 🧵5/6
This is a photo of a beaver wetland. Photo credit: James Shooter/SCOTLAND: The Big Picture.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 06/04/2025
🌀 Oxygen sinks in inland waters Inland waters have become massive sinks of atmospheric oxygen. From 1900–2010, oxygen consumption tripled due to more nutrients, warming, & damming rivers These shifts may affect climate and water quality worldwide. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SciComm 🧪
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Global inland-water oxygen cycle has changed in the Anthropocene
Inland waters are an increasing sink of oxygen as a result of faster oxygen turnover.
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Arkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 06/04/2025
A bill that could strip away an environmental permit moratorium intended to protect the water quality of the Buffalo River watershed passed out of a Senate committee Tuesday. #arpx #arleg
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Bill targeting watershed moratoriums passes Arkansas Senate committee • Arkansas Advocate
A bill that could strip away an environmental permit moratorium intended to protect the water quality of the Buffalo River watershed passed out of a Senate committee Tuesday.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
If you give a dam about drought mitigation, water quality, wildlife habitat, salmon restoration, carbon sequestration, & wildfire resilience, then every day is #InternationalBeaverDay. April 7 just happens to be the occasion on which we formally acknowledge the debt we owe our semiaquatic saviors. 🙏
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EGU Hydrological Sciences Division @hs.egu.eu · 04/04/2025
OUT NOW: A fantastic new read for hydrologists 📚: a wrap-up of the Panta Rhei scientific decade of @iahs-aish.bsky.social. Between 2013 and 2022, it explored links between changes in hydrology and society. 🌍 In this paper, Heidi Kreibich and her colleagues present ten years of progress. 👇
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Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society
To better understand the increasing human impact on the water cycle and the feedbacks between hydrology and society, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) organized the scie...
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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
My guest editorial about the #hydrology of Arizona's San Pedro River (my home) and how #mining will negatively impact the area. www.coppercreekmine.com/wp-content/u...
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Dr. Rebecca Rooney @girls-can.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I’ve logged back in, so let me promote our latest paper on the pesticides in stormwater ponds that accumulate in biofilms —> turns out those biofilms are bad food for bugs! #ecology #biodiversity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Luka Vucinic @luximus.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Our Hydrology/Hydrogeology/Water+ is now full (150 spots filled). Wow! This was quick...yet, very time consuming thing to do. However, it’s been great helping colleagues reconnect and make new contacts here. Time for a well-earned break before thinking about Part 2. Cheers! go.bsky.app/2h9ouZY
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Action Intent Links | Bluesky
Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
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Prof. David Boutt @davidboutt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Read about our new project trying to understand what the future and evolution of the hydrological cycle here in New England might look like! @umassamherst.bsky.social @umasshydro.bsky.social www.umass.edu/news/article... #water #groundwater #hydrology
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Longer Droughts, Bigger Floods: UMass Amherst Hydrologist Maps the Future of Water in New England | UMass Amherst
Climate change is causing a cascade of changes to everything from harvests to flooded basements, but this new research will help us know what to expect.
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Ciaran J Harman @theoryofciaran.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The Berkeley* Catchment Science Symposium is happening this year on the Sunday before AGU in DC🎉 Registration Link is here: symposium.brownpapertickets.com Keynotes from Ellen Wohl, Pierre Gentine, Matthias Sprenger, and Nandita Basu! Plus your pop-ups and posters. More info 👇
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Catchment Science Symposium
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 15/11/2024
while adjusting to new social media apps can be exhausting, sewers will always be the first social media network that drained you in the best way possible.
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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Fantastic day at SUNY Plattsburgh, learning a new microplastics protocol from our collaborators, and hunting for nurdles on City beach.
Plastic pellets in someone's hand and a smiling woman in a hijab. 4 women in costa smile on a beach
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“Terrestrial water storage is a natural resource vital to ecosystems & societies. … discuss mechanisms that account for abrupt decline in terrestrial water storage & possible explanations for divergence of the barystatic sea level change estimates.” TL;DR: this happened not sure if it will again
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An Abrupt Decline in Global Terrestrial Water Storage and Its Relationship with Sea Level Change - Surveys in Geophysics
As observed by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow On (GRACE-FO) missions, global terrestrial water storage (TWS), excluding ice sheets and glaciers, declined rapidly ...
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Dr. Kim Van Meter @vanmeterkvm.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
At #GSA2023, Shuyu Chang is presenting our work on using data-driven approaches to predict nitrogen accumulation in Upper Mississippi River Basin groundwater. #VanMeterLab
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/10/2023
California has put a water-stressed farming region on notice for having “inadequate” plans to curb its overuse of groundwater, bringing officials closer to directly intervening, for the first time in state history, in the way growers manage their underground water supplies.
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California Moves Closer to Imposing First Limits on Groundwater Use
Officials will weigh whether to directly intervene, for the first time in state history, to stop aquifers from being wrung dry in the Central Valley.
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Noah Fierer @noahfierer.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
New job opening at CU Boulder: Asst. Professor of Environmental Data Science. A great opportunity at a great place jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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Isaac Land @coastalhistory.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Really nice to see how many oyster restoration projects there are out there. This public radio story also features the "Black in Marine Science" group.
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Dr. Pascale Guiton @pguiton.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Ok, Bluesky, let's see what you got :). Hi everyone!
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Let's start a thread of faculty in evolutionary bio & ecology who are seeking grad students in the run-up to application season. Repost with: who you are, a potential student project, a photo, and a link.
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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Hoping y'all can help me learn the Blue Sky ropes and also to amplify this postdoc opportunity! Come work with a great team on the meta'omics of methane production in tidal freshwater marshes at the PIE LTER! Based at MBL, but lots of fun with our group too.  tinyurl.com/ycvrkpky #HiSciSky
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Lots of tenure-track #envhist jobs open now in US: Rice (Env Studies w/Justice focus) www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis... Clemson www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis... Berkeley www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis... Idaho www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis... Notre Dame (Climate Change, Env & Peace) www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
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Ben Walther @bendw.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
NEW POSTDOC Working with #hypoxia, #tags, #boats, #FishSci, #mud, #otolith & eye #lens #isotope chemistry in the #Baltic. Position is at the University of Essex with Dr Anna Sturrock and collaborating with a large international team (including me!). Deadline Nov 6. More info: tinyurl.com/muddyfish
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emsaurios @emsaurios.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
We are hiring tenure-track #job Assist Prof in geographical & related social science approaches to critical development w/place-based approach and interests in Middle East, Africa or East Asia, climate, EJ, health, disasters, human rights or humanitarianism. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary: The International Studies Major and the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seek a tenure-track assistant professor trained in geographical and related social...
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Joel E. Correia @joelecorreia.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
🔥JOB Opening! We are hiring a TT Assistant Professor of Conservation Social Science in the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Dept at Colorado State. Ecological economist w/ research focused on climate change, biodiversity, and/or human-wildlife dynamics. More info & link to soon!
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Justin Maxwell @l-tulipifera.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
We have two tenure track positions in the Department of Geography at IU. Check out the ads below. Please share widely and if interested, apply! Water Resources and GIS: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/20404 Remote Sensing and Vegetation: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/20402
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Dr. Stacy Calhoun-Grosch @stacycalgro.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Are you working with aquatic scientific data? Please tell us your experiences and fill in the following survey: pomona.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cG… #GLEONetwork #OpenScience #AquaticScience 🦑
Do you work with aquatic scientific data? We would like to hear your experiences in generating, accessing, and/or manipulating datasets. Please take the survey linked in the text of the post. This survey is related to the GLEON project “Challenges of Open Data in Aquatic Sciences Research.” The survey takes 10 minutes to complete and will remain open until October 22, 2023.
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
A terrific story about the conflict in the Netherlands between agriculture and the environment--a fight that is hitting hard there now, with court orders to cut back farming that releases toxic nitrogen, but is already spreading to the rest of Europe and the Americas. www.politico.eu/arti...
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Protecting nature, destroying lives: The chemist vs. the Dutch farmers
Is Johan Vollenbroek saving the Netherlands — or tearing it apart?
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Knowledge Zone @knowledgezone.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
#KnowledgeByte: Too much #Nitrogen in the water can have diverse and far-reaching impacts on public health, the environment and the economy. #ClimateChange is increasing the amount of nitrogen polluting rivers and other waterways. knowledgezone.co.in/trends/explo...
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Nitrogen Pollution
Excess nitrogen in the atmosphere can produce pollutants such as ammonia and ozone, which can impair our ability to breathe, limit visibility and alter plant growth.
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