MANTORVILLE, Minn.-Testing well water for nitrates in Southeast Minnesota is important for protecting local drinking water.

Drinking water with nitrate higher than that concentration can lead to “blue baby syndrome,” a sometimes fatal disease for babies. However, experts have long raised concerns that ingesting ...

Could your water put you at risk for cancer? Dr. Jesse Bell from the University of Nebraska Medical Center emphasizes the ...

The Guymon Public Water System has detected high nitrate levels (11 mg/L, exceeding the EPA limit of 10 mg/L), posing a serious risk to infants under six months old. City ...

“They had the highest priority.” Nitrate is known to be especially harmful for pregnant women and small children. It can cause so-called blue baby syndrome, a condition caused by the ...

Iowa is the largest producer of corn in the U.S. and, according to a recent report published by the Iowa Cancer Registry, has ...

This is a differential medium. It is used to determine if an organism is capable of reducing nitrate (NO 3-) to nitrite (NO 2-) or other nitrogenous compounds via the action of the enzyme nitratase ...

Greenpeace Aotearoa is announcing more free drinking water nitrate testing events, after ECan failed to vote on providing ...

Bacteria commonly utilize nitrate and nitrite as terminal electron acceptors for respiration in the absence of oxygen, or for incorporation in biomass. However, it was only recently described that ...