A study published in the journal Global Change Biology has found that sewage-derived nitrogen is increasingly becoming the top source of such pollution in Caribbean coastal ecosystems.
And one of the study’s authors and chair of environmental science at American University, Kiho Kim, is undertaking an analysis of the problem.
Fertilizer had been the dominant source of nitrogen pollution in Caribbean coastal ecosystems for the past 50 years, but the study found that even though that is on the decline – thanks in part to the introduction of more advanced, environmentally responsible agricultural practices during the last decade, the existing pollution is still a problem.
