Fertilizer can be made from local resources instead of fossil fuels

The prices of mineral fertilizers are rising. The Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB is ...
Nanowerk

New hybrid nanomaterials could replace century old fertilizer production process

Scientists develop metal-organic framework composites that convert nitrogen to ammonia using renewable electricity, offering a cleaner fertilizer alternative. (Nanowerk News) For more than a century, ...
Drexel University

Study: Turning Wastewater into Fertilizer Is Feasible and Could Help to Make Agriculture More Sustainable

The wastewater draining from massive pools of sewage sludge has the potential to play a role in more sustainable agriculture, according to environmental engineering researchers at Drexel University. A ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Mosaic Co. aims to inject fertilizer production wastewater 8,000 feet underground

The Mosaic Company has received a state permit to drill an exploratory well in Polk County, Florida. The well will test the geology for the potential deep underground injection of fertilizer ...
Forbes

How Brazil Can Use Domestic Fertilizer Production To Ensure Its Continued Role In The Global Food Supply

Globalization has yielded many economic benefits for modern society, but the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have been a sobering lesson about the vulnerability of that paradigm ...
Hydrocarbon Processing

Siemens and Shomax expand U.S. fertilizer production with zero-carbon green ammonia

The signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) is designed to reduce U.S. reliance on imported nitrogen fertilizer, currently ...
Business Wire

Commercial-Scale Production Proves Affordable, Accessible, and Sustainable Phosphorus Fertilizer Supply

STATE COLLEGE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Phospholutions Inc, a growth stage sustainable fertilizer startup, has reached a significant milestone in commercializing its flagship RhizoSorb ® technology to ...