Fertilizer use could reduce climate benefit of cellulosic biofuels
Friday, June 3, 2016 - 07:51
in Earth & Climate
According to a new, three-year study from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and Michigan State University (MSU), the use of nitrogen fertilizer on switchgrass crops can produce a sharp increase in emissions of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas up to 300 times more harmful than carbon dioxide and a significant driver of global climate change.