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Analysis: What cicadas may be discussing after 17 years of being dormant
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STEVE INSKEEP
NPR Morning Edition
05-26-2004
Analysis: What cicadas may be discussing after 17 years of being dormant
Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
If you live in Ohio or Georgia or Maryland or a dozen other states, your back yard may be a very noisy place to be right now.
(Soundbite of cicadas)
INSKEEP: This is what cicadas sound like when they're looking for love. This month billions of these Brood X cicadas are on the prowl. For reasons nobody quite understands, they come above ground only ...
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Nitrates Q&A
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic
; ...underground can also influence nitrate concentration. How do nitrates reach underground drinking water? Nitrate-rich manure overapplied...frequent testing. Is nitrate pollution a new problem? No. Because nitrates are stable, they can...
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 "Yakima Herald-Republic (Yakima, WA)")
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Nitrates Q&A.
News Wire article from: Yakima Herald-Republic (Yakima, WA)
; ...underground can also influence nitrate concentration. How do nitrates reach underground drinking water? Nitrate-rich manure overapplied...frequent testing. Is nitrate pollution a new problem? No. Because nitrates are stable, they can...
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Nitrate Control of Root Hydraulic Properties in Plants: Translating Local Information to Whole Plant Response1[OA]
Magazine article from: Plant Physiology
; ...to acquire mobile nutrients such as nitrate. Whereas proliferation of roots might help in the longer term, nitrate-rich patches can shift rapidly with...Here, we report that variation in nitrate concentration around roots induces an...
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Nitrate intake does not influence bladder cancer risk: the Netherlands Cohort Study.(Research)
Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives
; ...nitroso compounds, endogenously formed from nitrate-derived nitrite, are suspected to be...carcinogens. However, the association between nitrate exposure from food or drinking water and...We evaluated the associations between nitrate exposure and bladder cancer in the Netherlands...
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Calcium ammonium nitrate: warm shelter for the nitrate industry in the cold financial "winter".(Inorganics)
Magazine article from: China Chemical Reporter
; Calcium ammonium nitrate is a new kind of highly effective compound fertilizer...without causing the soil to agglomerate. Both nitrate nitrogen and ammoniate nitrogen are in the calcium ammonium nitrate. Moreover, it contains water-soluble calcium...
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Nitrate, nitrate everywhere.... (legislation in Great Britain forces water companies to reduce nitrate levels) (Special Issue - Environmental Protection)
Magazine article from: Process Engineering
; NITRATE, NITRATE EVERYWHERE. . . The water companies are having act to cut nitrate levels in drinking water. Keith Allott asks if the health risks are real, and looks at the measures being taken to tackle the problem. |There is a strong feeling...
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Dietary nitrate: where is the risk?(Correspondence)
Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives
; ...conclude that dietary nitrates elevate a single health...explored before changes to nitrate water quality standards...confidently say that nitrates are not the threat...drinking water MCL for nitrates to 20 ppm nitrate-N to reflect the...
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Nitrate pollution and sustainable agriculture.
Magazine article from: Nitrogen & Methanol
; ...the nitrite ions to nitrate. Denitrification is the process in which nitrates are reduced to gaseous...thoroughly remove all nitrates from the soil. No nitrate is naturally added...health effects of nitrates Nitrate concentrations...
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Nitrates can be toxic after rain.
Magazine article from: Feedstuffs
; ...forages are prone to nitrate toxicity. "The problem...when the plant takes up nitrates from the soil but doesn...risk for accumulating nitrates are drought-stressed...moisture to convert nitrates. Nitrate toxicity is also a problem...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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NITRATE LEVELS RISING SHARPLY IN PASSAIC RIVER
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; ...for addressing nitrates and other issues. The nitrate reading of water...Geological Survey. Nitrates are considered...drought, the nitrate reading at the...unsafe levels of nitrates. "This is due...percent of ingested nitrate is transformed...
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