Nitrogen metabolism of gut bacteria can provide health benefits. Specifically, gut microbes metabolize dietary nitrates and nitrites and prevent the formation of cancer-causing compounds called ...

The Farm Animal Welfare Council in 2003, and the European Food Safety Authority in 2004 and 2020, have previously recommended ...

Microorganisms in the Black Sea can produce large amounts of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O). However, this gas ...

A COMMITTEE of animal welfare experts has recommended a ban on the use of high concentration CO2 to stun and kill pigs in a new report for the UK government.

The discovery of non-cyanobacteria diazotrophs underneath Arctic sea ice could change our understanding of the food web, as ...

Your every breath serves as a reminder that the atmosphere of Earth is silently carrying out its function. Since air is ...

A man who murdered a woman during a gas station robbery will be put to death in Alabama with nitrogen gas. The execution of Geoffrey Todd West, 50, is scheduled for Thursday night at south Alabama’s ...

Alabama plans to carry out its fourth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Geoffrey Todd West to death by nitrogen gas hypoxia for killing a woman during a robbery 28 years ago. This execution ...

An Alabama inmate, who officials say is scheduled to die in October by nitrogen hypoxia, is pushing for execution by firing squad, hanging or medical-aid-in-dying instead. Anthony Boyd has filed a ...

FILE - Abraham Bonowitz, executive director of Death Penalty Action, and other death penalty opponents hold a demonstration outside the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, ...

A group of inmates on death row in Arkansas filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new state law allowing the use of nitrogen gas in executions. That law, Act 302 of 2025, takes effect today. A lawyer ...