How industrial agriculture is disturbing the nitrogen cycle and undermining conditions for life on Earth

Gilles Billen, Sorbonne Université Six of our nine planetary boundaries have been crossed– industrial agriculture is the main culprit. That is what a team of scientists under Johan Rockström reported in an article published in September. First, a reminder: planetary boundaries are thresholds of disturbance beyond which our Earth’s system is put on an uncontrollable … Continue reading How industrial agriculture is disturbing the nitrogen cycle and undermining conditions for life on Earth