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Climate change: What's in the rising tide?

The nitrogen cycle rarely features in the grim litany of things at risk from global warming. Nick Lane reports on research that might change this ? with grave consequences for ocean chemistry.

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Nick Lane is a science writer and honorary reader at University College London.

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Lane, N. Climate change: What's in the rising tide?. Nature 449, 778–780 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449778a

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