A farmer from South Carolina says others are using sludge as fertilizer to enrich agricultural fields, despite the potential ...

Farms can use less fertilizer without compromising crop yield according to a new, long-term academic study conducted in the United Kingdom and Africa. Farmers can use far less chemical fertilizer — ...

WASHINGTON — Tests conducted by the environmental group, The Sierra Club, show fertilizer used in local vegetable gardens may be high in a toxic chemical known to damage organs and suppress your ...

Jan. 14—Forever chemicals in sewage-based fertilizer spread on pastures can increase cancer risks for people who consume milk, beef, eggs and other products from those farms, with some risks ...

At a BASF plant in northern Germany, chemists began manufacturing ammonia on an industrial scale exactly one century ago. This industrial scaling of the chemical process devised by Fritz Haber served ...

Soil should be alive and it is a fact that chemical fertilizers kill the microbial activity in soil. Do we really need ...

Fertilizer containing sludge being applied to farmland. Courtesy of North East Biosolids and Residuals Association. This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories ...

Chemical fertilizers, a scourge on aquatic ecosystems and human health, may be one of the most insufferable idiosyncrasies of industrial agriculture. A God complex drove humanity to believe we could ...

Researchers say human urine – or peecycling – could be a liquid gold alternative to chemical fertilizers. Fabien Esculier, a researcher at the OCAPI research program in France, told Euro News that ...