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You've heard of a carbon footprint – now it's time to take steps to cut your nitrogen footprint

  • Written by Ee Ling Ng, Research fellow, University of Melbourne
Transport and livestock are both significant contributors to nitrogen pollution.Annalucia/Shutterstock.com

Nitrogen pollution has significant environmental and human health costs. Yet it is often conflated with other environmental problems, such as climate change, which is exacerbated by nitrous oxide (N₂O) and nitrogen oxides (NOₓ), or...

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