A Major Source of Air Pollution: Farms

ENN
May 16, 2016, 8:05 pm6 pts
A new study says that emissions from farms outweigh all other human sources of fine-particulate air pollution in much of the United States, Europe, Russia and China. The culprit: fumes from nitrogen-rich fertilizers and animal waste that combine in the air with industrial emissions to form solid particles—a…

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