Nitrogen News
Dust was blooming marvellous for harbour
Tuesday October 6, 2009
THE thick blanket of red dust that settled on Sydney last month caused the harbour to bloom.Humanity venturing towards environmental catastrophe, warns study
Thursday September 24, 2009
HUMANITY risks causing catastrophic and irreversible environmental damage by crossing "nine planetary boundaries", scientists have warned.Coal To Fertiliser Trials A Success
Thursday November 27, 2008
THE company behind the proposed $2 billion coal-to-fertiliser plant in the Latrobe Valley will push the project to detailed design stage after successful trials in Germany. Latrobe Fertilisers, a subsidiary of Australian Energy Company, aims to use low-emissions technology to produce nitrogen-rich fertiliser urea from Latrobe Valley brown coal.Quote Unquote
Monday November 24, 2008
"It's clear there would be immense value in improved monitoring close to communities in those areas."
Hunter New England Health population physician David Durrheim says more information is needed about the concentrations to which communities are exposed to poisonous nitrogen oxides in the Upper Hunter and Lake Macquarie .Toxic Alarm
Monday November 24, 2008
THOUSANDS of tonnes of poisonous oxides of nitrogen are being pumped into the air over the Upper Hunter and Lake Macquarie despite warnings about their health effects.Thwaites Denies Bay Claims
Tuesday August 30, 2005
THE State Government has rejected suggestions that nitrogen levels in Port Phillip Bay are nearing crisis point and that its economic argument for channel deepening has been undermined.Price Hoping For A Whiff Of Luck With Nitrogen Narcosis
Saturday July 3, 2004
NOWRA trainer Robert Price is hoping for a change of luck with Nitrogen Narcosis and Machado in the Windang Class 2 Handicap (1200m) at Kembla Grange today.Diving Beyond Comfort Zone, Team Brings Wreck Back From History Books
Saturday November 22, 2003
Laden with five scuba tanks filled with a special mixture of nitrogen, oxygen and helium it took Mark Spencer and seven colleagues just five minutes to travel back more than 86 years.Csiro Man Dies In Geelong Lab
Wednesday December 12, 2001
A CSIRO laboratory employee was found dead at work in Geelong yesterday morning, apparently after being deprived of oxygen when entering a storage room filled with nitrogen gas.Red Alert As Mars Mania Sweeps Alien Territory
Saturday October 20, 2001
Back in the 1930s, in a bad sci-fi flick called The Deadly Ray from Mars, Flash Gordon, helped by pointy-headed scientist Dr Hans Zarkov and pointy-chested siren Dale Arden, foiled a dastardly plot by Ming the Merciless to drain all the nitrogen from Earth's atmosphere.