The Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency, Laura Burke, has said that the agricultural sector has work to do to improve water quality in Cork and its surroundings. Ms Burke said that ...

Ingesting dangerous levels of nitrates through drinking water is associated with specific cancers and birth defects.

They’re found in fruit, veg and cured meat, but why is it that we are warned against eating some foods with nitrates and nitrites in, but we’re told to fill our fridges with others?

"I am confident that when I bring forward a Jersey regulatory standard for PFAS later this year, Jersey Water will be in an ...

Government's advisory group on nitrates policy has planned regular meetings over the next month to get the ball rolling on the next Nitrates Action Programme.

A high dietary nitrate intake has traditionally been linked with gastrointestinal cancer, but more published studies contradict than support this association. In humans, dietary nitrate (mostly ...

Some agricultural pesticides used in the Midwest can also be carried to the wetland through surface runoff. Nitrates are lost from upland sites primarily through subsurface drainage. In the wetland, ...

According to the Minnesota Department of Health, drinking water with more than 10 milligrams of nitrates per liter — or 10 parts per million (ppm) — can negatively affect human health.

ICOS and IFA delegates met EU Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall, to outline the necessity of retaining Ireland’s ...

Opinion: Write to the U.S. Forest Service and county commissioners urging them to not permit the drilling and blasting and to protect the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness.

However, plants and animals cannot use nitrogen gas directly. Nitrates and other minerals are taken into a plant via specially adapted root cells called root hair cells. They are specially adapted ...