Agriculture emissions pose risks to health and climate

A examine led by environmental scientists at Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering analyzed the price of reactive nitrogen emissions from fertilized agriculture and their risks to populations and climate.

The examine led by Daniel Cohan, an affiliate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and graduate pupil Lina Luo quantifies emissions of nitrogen oxides, ammonia and nitrous oxide from fertilized soils over three years (2011, 2012 and 2017) and compares their impacts by area on air high quality, health and climate, in accordance to a launch.

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The examine discovered whole annual damages from ammonia had been a lot bigger total — at $72 billion — than these from nitrogen oxides ($12 billion) and nitrous oxide ($13 billion), in accordance to the discharge.

Air air pollution damages are measured by elevated mortality and morbidity. Monetized damages from climate change embody the threats to crops, property, ecosystem companies and human health.

The researchers discovered that the health impression of air air pollution from ammonia and nitrogen oxides, outweighed the climate impression from nitrous oxide.

Cohan appeared on KPRC 2+ to share extra about these findings. Watch the total interview within the video on the high of the web page.

Read the summary at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c08660.