date:Apr 28, 2014
third most potent greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and methane.
Currently, 6.5 million to 8 million tonnes a year of nitrogen escape into the environment due to agricultural practices. That represents around 80 percent of nitrogen emissions from all sources, said the study by the United Nations' Economic Commission for Europe's (UNECE) Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen.
Around 79-88 percent of total emissions in the EU related to nitrogen are from livestock production. The nitrogen footprint