{"id":1492,"date":"2018-01-01T23:21:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T22:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investinpeace.tssef.se\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2018-01-01T23:21:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T22:21:15","slug":"the-nitrate-time-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"The Nitrate Time Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-41945650\">The BBC w<\/a>rites that\u00a0a report from the\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/\">British Geological Survey<\/a>\u00a0says nitrogen stored in the ground beneath us could have severe global-scale consequences for rivers, water supplies, human health and the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The nitrate will be released from the rocks into rivers via springs causing\u00a0toxic algal blooms and fish deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The report underlines the stark message of the 2015 publication of the Stockholm Environmental Institute, that almost half of the processes that are crucial to maintaining the stability of the planet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sei-international.org\/-news-archive\/3006-planetary-boundaries-analysis-highlights-need-for-better-policies-on-chemicals\">have become dangerously compromised<\/a> by human activity. One of these processes is the nitrogen cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are calling for better policies on management of nitrogen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC writes that\u00a0a report from the\u00a0British Geological Survey\u00a0says nitrogen stored in the ground beneath us could have severe global-scale consequences for rivers, water supplies, human health and the economy. The nitrate will be released from the rocks into rivers via springs causing\u00a0toxic algal blooms and fish deaths. The report underlines the stark message of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/?p=1492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Nitrate Time Bomb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}