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.

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