Initial reactions to the executive order focused on the use of phosphorus in herbicides. But the issue goes beyond domestic environmental concerns. The phosphate industry sells fertilizers, ...

A team of scientists has developed a highly efficient method for reclaiming phosphorus from wetland plant waste, addressing ...

A promising new form of ammonium phosphate fertilizer has been field-tested. The fertilizer, struvite, offers a triple win for sustainability and crop production, as it recycles nutrients from ...

Disrupting Earth’s chemical cycles brings trouble. But planet-warming carbon dioxide isn’t the only element whose cycle we’ve turned wonky—we’ve got a phosphorus problem too. And it’s a big one, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A spreader sprays sewage sludge, which is rich in phosphorus, across a farm in Oklahoma. AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel When people ...

If you've been told a slow-release fertilizer can help your yard or garden, the advice is likely solid. But it's important to ...

Throughout history the term “the big three” has had various meanings. If you grew up a few millennials before Christianity, you might have learned in Greek Mythology about the big three gods of Zeus, ...

Struvite, shown here, is a slow-release fertilizer capable of reducing nitrogen and phosphorus leaching relative to monoammonium phosphate, the leading fall-applied fertilizer in the Midwest. In a new ...

Global agricultural N input through ammonium phosphate fertilizers (APF) on an absolute basis (stacked bars) and as a proportion of global N input (black dots), during 2002–2019 based on FAOSTAT data.