Factors that exacerbate soil acidity include minimal or zero till, which results in the top three inches (7.5 cm) of soil ...

Recently, a research team in the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel ammonium adsorbent that significantly reduces ammonia emissions from ...

Like other nitrogen-based fertilizers, it increases the acidity levels of soil through a process called nitrification, which converts ammonia into nitrite (NO2-) and then nitrate (NO3-), leaving ...