Fertilizer is crucial for the global food supply, but making it uses a lot of energy and produces a lot of emissions. Some ...

The net earnings of North America’s top fertilizer producers raise questions about who benefits most from fertilizer use, an ...

When the U.S. started bombing Iran in February and trade routes bottlenecked, Minnesota farmer Les Anderson watched synthetic nitrogen fertilizer prices skyrocket. Making the product requires natural ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have developed wheat plants that stimulate the production of their own fertilizer, opening the path toward less air and water pollution worldwide and ...

Nitrogen fertilizers are applied to crops to increase yield, but some of that nitrogen is lost to the atmosphere in the form of ammonia. Ammonia is a major air pollutant linked to numerous health ...

Top fertilizer company profits skyrocketed 88% last year, while pollution drives a worsening cancer crisis and fertilizer ...

American farmers are expected to plant several million fewer acres of corn in 2026 than they did in 2025, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz throttles a key fertilizer trading corridor, along with ...

A new study from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research ...

Algae on Lake Okeechobee’s east shore surrounds boats in a harbor, July 11, 2018. Toxic algae blossoms on Lake Okeechobee helped convince Republican leaders to plan billions in state and federal ...

If you’ve ever seen a frog with extra legs or other severe malformations, fertilizer runoff was probably not far behind. According to a University of Colorado study, farming nutrients are leaking into ...