" In the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains, the carcasses of starving cattle rotted in a bone-dry reservoir. Useless fishing nets hung on dusty fences. Rowboats were stranded in the sand.
"Down on the valley floor, Rafael Parra bent to the work of feeding the world — and unintentionally warming it.
"A layer of chalk-white fertilizer had been scattered on the barren ground. Tractors had cut long furrows in the dry and crumbling soil. The wheat seeds would not be planted for days, but it was time to release the laughing gas."
The research of SWAC faculty member Dr. Tim Griffis is featured in the article: "In the Midwestern United States, another over-fertilized nitrous oxide hot spot, research by Timothy Griffis and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota found such emissions could be three times more than typical estimates." Read the article in the Washington Post.