Marsh Madness: Quiz about Louisiana outdoors By Bob MarshallMarch 22, 2009; The Times-Picayune So, you've finally found your way to the real March sports news. That's right, forget about that impostor dominating sports pages and ESPN 24/7. Forget teams with names such as Huskies, Devils and Tigers. The real spring battle is among the gaspergou [...]

Nitrogen Fertilizer: Agricultural Breakthrough--And Environmental Bane By Sarah SimpsonMarch 20, 2009; Scientific Americanhttp://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=nitrogen-fertilizer-anniversary A new report citing drawbacks of the corn ethanol craze casts a pall over the centennial of a Nobel Prize-winning discovery that transformed global food production   100 years of green: Has the discovery of nitrogen fertilizer been fruitful in the long [...]

Top Paper in Environmental Science: Leaving a legacy of dead zones By Erika EngelhauptMarch 10, 2009; Environmental Science and Technology Environmental Newshttp://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es900418d Copyright © 2009 American Chemical Society “Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia: Alternate States and a Legacy” by R. Eugene Turner and Dubravko Justic, Louisiana State University; and Nancy N. Rabalais, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, [...]

ES&Ts Best Papers of 2008 By Jerald L. SchnoorMarch 4, 2009; Environmental Science and Technologyhttp://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es9003729?cookieSet=1 In 2008, ES&T published more than 1300 papers on a wide range of topics. But which papers were the top papers, the best of the year? This year, our associate editors nominated papers that they felt were of the highest [...]