Ammonium source in open ocean tracked by researchers
Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 04:00
in Earth & Climate
To understand the extent to which human activities are polluting Earth's atmosphere and oceans, it's important to distinguish human-made pollutants from compounds that occur naturally. A new study finds that deposition of ammonium, a source of nitrogen pollution, over the open ocean comes mostly from natural marine sources, and not from human activity.