Worth to Read: Bittersweet nature of nitrogen calls for better management practices
First global resolution on nitrogen a huge step forward
At the Fourth UN Environment Assembly in March 2019, Member States approved the first-ever global resolution on nitrogen, calling on UN Environment’s Executive Director to “consider the options to facilitate better coordination of policies across the global nitrogen cycle at the national, regional and global levels, including consideration of the case to establish an intergovernmental coordination mechanism on nitrogen policies (…)”.
The Power of Plant Partnerships
Watch “The Power of Plant Partnerships” a video created by genomics company, Illumina, about the research of Sharon Doty on the relationship between nitrogen-fixing endophytic bacteria and poplar.