Starting next year, the rule will apply to at least 250 more operations that have fields with somewhat less elevated phosphorus levels, state figures show. And in two years, the coverage will expand ...

Algae-producing phosphorus washing into Lake Pepin has dropped dramatically, but a water quality analyst says that too much of the chemical still makes its way into the lake. Kris Sigford, water ...

With its new enzyme mode of action, Phosforce from Koch Agronomic Services is a novel phosphorus nutrient use efficiency product. It aims to make more phosphorus available to the plant during critical ...

Harvest is in full swing, but the impact of a difficult planting season is still apparent from the combine perch. While phosphorus (P) might have been plentiful in the soil, a cold, wet spring tricked ...

As the world tries to mitigate agriculture's effect on the environment, much of the story can be found in the soils, which stores and cycles nutrient elements of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus.

A research team has shown that microbes taken from trees growing beside pristine mountain-fed streams in Western Washington could make phosphorus trapped in soils more accessible to agricultural crops ...

For all its status as one of the three major plant nutrients, phosphorus gets little respect. Buried in the middle of the nutrient analysis on fertilizer labels (it's the "P" in N-P-K), phosphorus ...

Reducing levels of the nutrient phosphorus to control harmful algal blooms in places like Lake Erie is actually advantageous to toxic cyanobacteria strains, which can lead to an increase in toxins in ...

The quest for thermoelectric materials that efficiently convert changes in temperature into electric voltage is challenging. For optimal performance, a material must conduct small amounts of heat and ...

WILLMAR -- A governor's signature is still needed, but the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is ready to adopt a rule that will require all new and expanded wastewater treatment plants to limit their ...

A much-debated farm pollution regulation is set to take wider effect soon in Maryland, stirring growing anxiety among farmers and environmentalists alike. Those concerns could put the rule on hold ...