{"id":147577,"date":"2022-10-05T11:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/as-winters-warm-nutrient-pollution-threatens-40-percent-of-us"},"modified":"2022-10-05T11:24:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:24:49","slug":"as-winters-warm-nutrient-pollution-threatens-40-percent-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/as-winters-warm-nutrient-pollution-threatens-40-percent-of-us","title":{"rendered":"As winters warm, nutrient pollution threatens 40 percent of US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/as-winters-warm-nutrient-pollution-threatens-40-percent-of-us2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are ringing alarm bells about a significant new threat to U.S. water quality: as winters warm due to climate change, they are unleashing large amounts of nutrient pollution into lakes, rivers, and streams.<\/p>\n<p>The first-of-its-kind national study finds that previously frozen <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/winter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">winter<\/a> nutrient pollution\u2014unlocked by rising <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/winter+temperatures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">winter temperatures<\/a> and rainfall\u2014is putting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/water+quality\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water quality<\/a> at risk in 40% of the contiguous U.S., including over 40 states.<\/p>\n<p>Nutrient runoff into rivers and lakes\u2014from phosphorus and nitrogen in fertilizers, manure, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/animal+feed\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">animal feed<\/a>, and more\u2014has affected <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/water\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water<\/a> quality for decades. However, most research on nutrient runoff in snowy climates has focused on the growing season. Historically, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cold+temperatures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cold temperatures<\/a> and a continuous snowpack froze nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorous in place until the watershed thawed in the spring, when plants could help absorb excess nutrients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are ringing alarm bells about a significant new threat to U.S. water quality: as winters warm due to climate change, they are unleashing large amounts of nutrient pollution into lakes, rivers, and streams. The first-of-its-kind national study finds that previously frozen winter nutrient pollution\u2014unlocked by rising winter temperatures and rainfall\u2014is putting water quality at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}