News articles tagged with 'nitrate'
Biodiversity improves water quality in streams through a division of labour
— 9 Apr 2011 11:43 | EnvironmentBiologically diverse streams are better at cleaning up pollutants than less rich waterways, and Bradley Cardinale, an assistant professor at the U-M School of Natural Resources and…
Nitrate improves mitochondrial function
— 2 Feb 2011 17:19 | HealthThe spinach-eating cartoon character Popeye has much to teach us, new research from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet shows. The muscles' cellular power plants -…
Want more efficient muscles? Eat your spinach
— 2 Feb 2011 16:31 | HealthAfter taking a small dose of inorganic nitrate for three days, healthy people consume less oxygen while riding an exercise bike. A new study in the February issue of Cell Metabolism…
Daily dose of beet juice promotes brain health in older adults
— 3 Nov 2010 11:23 | HealthResearchers for the first time have shown that drinking beet juice can increase blood flow to the brain in older adults - a finding that could hold great potential for combating the…
Elevated nitrogen and phosphorus still widespread in much of the nation's streams and groundwater
— 28 Sep 2010 12:45 | EnvironmentElevated concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus, nutrients that can negatively impact aquatic ecosystems and human health, have remained the same or increased in many streams and…
Fertiliser chemicals linked to animal developmental woes
— 28 Aug 2010 10:10 | EnvironmentFertiliser chemicals may pose a bigger hazard to the environment - specifically to creatures that live in water - than originally foreseen, according to new research from North Carolina…
Switchgrass lessens soil nitrate loss into waterways, ISU researcher says
— 11 Aug 2010 09:36 | EnvironmentBy planting switchgrass and using certain agronomic practices, farmers can significantly reduce the amount of nitrogen and nitrates that leach into the soil, according to Iowa State…
Planted, unplanted man-made wetlands are similar at year 15, and function as effective carbon sinks
— 7 Aug 2010 08:58 | EnvironmentA 15-year experiment in an outdoor 'laboratory' on Ohio State University's campus shows that naturally colonising wetlands can offer just as many, if not more, ecological services as…
Certain meat components may increase bladder cancer risk
— 2 Aug 2010 09:37 | HealthA new study suggests that consuming specific compounds in meat related to processing methods may be associated with an increased risk of developing bladder cancer. Published early online…
Nitrate in beetroot juice lowers blood pressure
— 29 Jun 2010 09:24 | HealthThe nitrate content of beetroot juice is the underlying cause of its blood pressure lowering benefits, research from Queen Mary University of London reveals today…