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Flying By Nitrogen
Ammonium drifts into national parks |
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28 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 4:24 PM on 28 Dec 2007 You may not be able to smell cow poop in Yellowstone, Glacier, and Rocky Mountain National Parks, but the air there has become increasingly contaminated with nitrogen compound ammonium, says a recent report from the National Park Service. Possibly originating in concentrated animal feeding operations, ammonium in the three parks -- as well as six other parks in Arizona, Idaho, South Dakota, and Utah -- was m ... |
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