Endangered species? Should cheap phosphorus be first on an elemental 'Red List?'

Friday, October 14, 2011 - 10:30 in Biology & Nature

Should the periodic table bear a warning label in the 21st century or be revised with a lesson about elemental supply and demand? If so, that lesson could start with one element considered a staple of life – but growing endangered, like the Asiatic dhole – phosphorus.

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