Prof Mark Sutton describes the new Clean & Healthy Ocean project on sustainable nitrogen management in the Maldives. Corals are under threat from nutrient pollution - the project will test innovative solutions 🪸

Just completed a successful start to the new Clean & Healthy Ocean, Maldives project for @thegef.bsky.social @unep.org and @fao.org executed by the Maldives National University and @ukceh.bsky.social. What are we doing? See the video!

Congratulations on launch of the GEF Clean and Healthy Oceans Thailand project on Nutrient Action! COBSEA pleased to co-execute this important and timely project with Pollution Control Department (PCD), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), Thailand!! www.unep.org/cobsea/news/...

In Male this week with Maldives National University, @unep.org, @fao.org & others to launch the new Clean & Healthy Ocean project on sustainable nitrogen management. Corals are under threat from nutrient pollution and we will be testing innovative solutions! Here our latest video of dying coral 🥺

Yesterday the UK parliament's Environmental Audit Committee continued its inquiry into air pollution. With @JennyHPlantlife I was happy to give evidence on the need for action to reduce ammonia and other nitrogen air pollution. Our evidence from 15:30 parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

Find out more about the recent ideathon and the Green Innovation Challenge in our news story: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... #ClimateAction #innovation

Nature and climate funding must now be articulated as infrastructure: as essential to food systems, public health, energy stability and geopolitical resilience. In security terms, biodiversity is not sentimental, it is strategic. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Developing innovative low-emission fertilisers 🚜 We're involved in new research to convert farm waste into high-performance, low-emission fertilisers, which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and farmers’ costs. Funded from the Farming Innovation Programme. www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪

While governments struggle in a failure to agree resolutions at #UNEA7, singer Antoinette Taus brought a message of hope with her new song #People&Planet. We spoke afterwards... #EverywhereAndInvisible #BeatNitrogenPollution #SDGs #rap

#UNEA7 discussion on #wastewater #pollution. Excellent statement from Ambassador Peter Maddens on his solution (30 mins in) & my intervention on #SewageDiplomacy (50 mins in), about raw sewage release from diplomatic residences. Great that #Belgium leading the way! m.youtube.com/watch?v=7DEd...

My latest: More than half of Americans’ nitrogen dioxide exposure can come from gas stoves, depending on how often they cook, a new study concludes insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...

Gas stoves play an outsized role in Americans’ exposure to harmful nitrogen dioxide pollution, a new study finds.

UN environment report 'hijacked' by US and others over fossil fuels, top scientist says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#UNEA7 Event this evening tackled nutrient pollution for a resilient planet. The event Livestream was recorded here. #HalveNitrogenWaste #BeatNutrientPollution www.youtube.com/live/8uqC87Q...

The UN Environment Assembly is where countries agree on how to tackle the world’s biggest environmental issues. Since 2014, over 100 resolutions have advanced global action on climate, nature, pollution & a more resilient planet. Stay tuned for #UNEA7! 🗓 8–12 Dec | Nairobi https://bit.ly/3WtFOt3

#UNEA7, civil society prepares to make its point on plastic pollution. Read between the lines and just the same issues on transparency are emerging in discussions about nitrogen pollution... More news expected this week. #BeatNitrogenPollution www.linkedin.com/posts/andres...

UKCEH scientists @seregaxp.bsky.social and @marknitrogen.bsky.social discuss recent research and a plan to improve fertiliser efficiency in Ukraine, helping rebuild #soil fertility once peace returns. New in @uk.theconversation.com ⬇️

“Ukraine’s farms once fed billions but now its soil is starving” - a piece for a general audience on @uk.theconversation.com doi.org/10.64628/AB.... @marknitrogen.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @towardsinms.bsky.social @commsearth.nature.com @w-u-r.bsky.social #Ukraine #War #Sustainability

www.nature.com/articles/s43... @towardsinms.bsky.social @marknitrogen.bsky.social

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NEWS: Ukraine’s soils are losing vital nutrients, threatening long-term food security. UKCEH-led research in the Nature journal @commsearth.nature.com warns of reduced fertiliser use and war impacts on soil health. See our news: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/deplet... #Soils #FoodSecurity 🧪 1/

Dr Sergiy Medinets: “There is an urgent need for an integrated nutrient management plan for Ukraine that wastes fewer nutrients and reduces the amount of synthetic fertiliser needed.” This would benefit soil health, food production & the environment. Full study: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The study was part of the International Nitrogen Assessment, which has carried out studies on major nutrient threats, opportunities and solutions in different regions across the world. www.ceh.ac.uk/press/deplet... @marknitrogen.bsky.social 3/3

🌱Fertilization use in Ukraine declined sharply following the Ukraine war in early 2022, associated with severe national nutrient deficits and underscoring an urgent need for an integrated nutrient management plan. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

How did the UN plastics negotiations go? A salutary tale, and lessons to be learned for other forms of pollution... #EverywhereAndInvisible #HalveNitrogenWaste medium.com/points-of-or...

‪Great opportunity: full @ukri.org funded PhD Studentship with 4 years fees, stipend (£19237 pa) and full Research Training Support Grant, working with Prof Ian Bull, Director of the National Environmental Isotope Facility and my @ercrefresh.bsky.social team! Starts 10/2025 shorturl.at/AJREj 🧪

Spoke on BBC Radio 4 Farming Today this morning on the implications of the Cunliffe Report for UK farmers and freshwaters, explaining some of the key findings from our @ukri.org funded QUANTUM programme on livestock impacts on www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 🧪

Today saw the publication of Nitrogen: Time to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle — a @houseoflords.parliament.uk report from the cross-party Environment and Climate Change Committee, into which UKCEH scientists provided written and oral evidence. Learn more: committees.parliament.uk/committee/51... 🧪 1/

The report helps highlight the need to tackle the issue of N pollution and management in a more joined-up, holistic way across sectors to reduce, recycle and reuse nitrogen. Full report: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld... #nitrogen #NitrogenPollution 2/2

UK House of Lords completes its inquiry into nitrogen and launches its report with a clear call to action! It was a pleasure to work with the parliamentarians who quickly recognized the urgent need and economic opportunity of a joined-up nitrogen strategy. committees.parliament.uk/committee/51...

House of Lords report published today warns that successive Governments have failed to tackle the dangerous health, environmental and economic impacts of nitrogen pollution in England caused mainly by agriculture, sewage, transport and industry www.watermagazine.co.uk/2025/07/24/g... #nitrogen

South Australia ‘helpless’ in face of deadly marine algal bloom spreading to Adelaide beaches State’s environment minister warns bloom unlikely to disappear any time soon as testing for toxic algae continues at 14 Adelaide sites www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A vast toxic algae bloom has sparked growing concern in Australia as it lingers off the south coast, killing hundreds of marine species and disrupting fisheries

Australia's toxic algae bloom is 'natural disaster' - premier says #Australia

🚨Just out in @natfood.nature.com! 🚨A News&Views article by Sergiy Medinets and @marknitrogen.bsky.social explores the new data-driven conceptual framework by Mi et al. for benchmarking sustainable nitrogen management in cropping systems. buff.ly/Xi9TRJN 🧪 #NitrogenManagement 1/

Nice to see it published! This represents a step toward the practical implementation of a classic partial-nutrient-budget–inspired concept for region- and crop-specific nitrogen benchmarking to achieve sustainable N management. rdcu.be/evOEF @towardsinms.bsky.social @marknitrogen.bsky.social

A high-profile 'carbon capture' project doesn't even capture enough co2 to cover it's own pollution, making it a net emitter Projects like this get plenty of soft media coverage of their promises, none have delivered There is no silver bullet, climate pollution must be stopped at the source

Overfertilization causes soil to become acidic, negatively affecting crop production. Reducing the use of agrochemicals is essential to protecting food systems. Check out UNEP’s efforts to #BeatNitrogenPollution: unep.org/interactives...

#Luftverschmutzung als Todesursache auf einem Totenschein? Ja, das gibt es. In 🇬🇧 im Fall eines neunjährigen Mädchens. Wer sich für die Hintergründe interessiert, kann auf deutsch in meinem Sachbuch nachlesen bastei-luebbe.de/Buecher/Sach... oder bei der Europäischen Umweltagentur auf englisch.

“I’m a farmer. We don’t want to admit that we messed up, but we did. We’ve over-applied fertilizer, we’ve over-applied water, and we drove nitrates down into the ground, and we have nitrates in groundwater.” www.agriculture.com/pillen-admit...

Was die EU übrigens weiterhin aus Russland importiert #Stickstoffdünger - der nicht zwar „zu 90% aus Erdgas besteht“. Was stimmt: Dünger wird aus Ammoniak gewonnen, hergestellt in Russland mit Erdgas. #Ammoniak ist auch Rohstoff f Munitionsherstellung. #nitrogen www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/w...

Auch hier spielt #Stickstoff im Überfluss rein, es fördert im Zusammenspiel mit zu viel #Phosphat Algenblüten. Auch giftige #everywhereandinvisible

Cutbacks have gutted the staff at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, who work to protect the public from toxic algal blooms. Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.