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## Reactive nitrogen: a global challenge In the early 1900s, food production was constrained by depleting soil nitrogen (N) stocks. This N constraint was unlocked by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch by converting the inert dinitrogen gas into readily available N and as per recent estimates global food production may be reduced to one-half of the current level without N fertilizer applications (Erisman et al., 2008). The need for N use is a doubleedged sword. On the one hand, its use is crucial in reducing poverty and hunger and boosting economic development, it can impose risks to health, environment, and economy on the other hand. The risks include climate change (Davidson, 2009), air pollution causing cancer and respiratory diseases in humans (Townsend et al., 2003), water pollution causing eutrophication in water bodies (Diaz and Rosenberg, 2008), loss of biodiversity (Clark and Tilman, 2008), stratospheric ozone depletion (Ravishankara et al., 2009), and acidification of natural ecosystems (Driscoll et al., 2003). The N compounds such as NH 3 and nitrous oxides form atmospheric aerosols that can cause significant economic and health damages (Paulot and Jacob, 2014). Nitrogen pollutio

Author

Tariq Aziz; Abdul Wakeel; Ahmad Naeem Shahzad; Robert Rees; Mark Sutton

Publisher

Elsevier

Published

2022

Language

EN