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ScottsMiracle-Gro's lawn fertilizers in the U.S. to be phosphorus-free by the end of 2012; Company to focus innovation efforts on the use of nitrogen; New multi-year commitment to consumer education and outreach on World Water Day announced MARYSVILLE, Ohio, March 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG), the world's largest marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products, today launched new initiatives involving product changes and consumer...

NEW YORK, March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board and OTCQB: BNET) announced today that construction of its initial Kreider Farm Project has proceeded on schedule and will be largely completed by the end of the month. The project is now transitioning into the equipment testing/shakedown stage. Bion's technical personnel and engineers are now working with Primus Engineering, the Project's General Contractor, to establish operational...

LEBANON, Pa., March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Lebanon Seaboard Corporation, a leading manufacturer of fertilizers and grass seeds, launches GreenView lawn fertilizers with GreenSmart - an enhanced efficiency fertilizer, in time for spring lawn preparations. The GreenView with GreenSmart line includes phosphorus-free fertilizer products that increase the efficiency of nutrient absorption to promote deeper, stronger roots. The result is a robust, vibrant, drought-resistant lawn at an...

The U.N.'s environmental watchdog warned on Thursday that tons of throw-away plastic and massive runoff from chemical fertilizer are choking the world's oceans. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) said in its annual Year Book report that the two sources of pollution threaten biodiversity, harm water quality, poison fish stocks and undermine coastal tourism. The report, which was released ahead of a key meeting next week of environment ministers in Nairobi, highlights the need to...

CINCINNATI, Feb. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthWarehouse.com, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: HEWA), a leading retail mail-order pharmacy and GC America, a leading dental products company focused on research and development of dental materials, have partnered to distribute MI Paste, a professional dental product which helps strengthen your teeth to aid in keeping them cavity resistant. MI Paste and MI Paste Plus provides calcium and phosphate ions at the surfaces of the teeth. The active...

Recalculating the global use of phosphorous, a fertilizer linchpin of modern agriculture, a team of researchers warns that the world's stocks may soon be in short supply and that overuse in the industrialized world has become a leading cause of the pollution of lakes, rivers and streams.Writing in the Feb. 14 edition of the journal Environmental Research Letters, Stephen Carpenter of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Elena Bennett of McGill University report that the human use of...

Attendees of ASU Sustainable Phosphorus Summit take heart, point to economic opportunities, new industry solutions to 'wicked problem'The problem with phosphorus, a critical element in fertilizers and food, is, as comedian Rodney Dangerfield would say, that it "can't get no respect."Increasingly scarce, yet commonly overused in agricultural fields, polluting streams and lakes, this essential component of our bones, our DNA, the periodic table and the dinner table may soon join oil...

A coupled-cycles framework is essential to balancing human needs with the health of the planetIf society wants to address big picture environmental problems, like global climate change, acid rain, and coastal dead zones, we need to pay closer attention to the Earth's coupled biogeochemical cycles. So reports a special issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, published this month by the Ecological Society of America."There are nearly seven billion people on the planet. And our...

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ - In developing its new Howard Quad Complex, a $20 million, 458-bed residence hall, Virginia State University (VSU) relied on Imbrium Systems' SorbtiveFILTER technology to treat stormwater runoff from adjacent parking lots. The Quad Phase I is the first of two projects consisting of four, L-shaped residence halls that will eventually cover the area now occupied by Howard Hall. The University is situated in Chesterfield County at Ettrick on a bluff...

McGill researchers develop first-ever detailed global map of critical phosphorus use and misuseA growing global population has lead to increasing demands for food. Farmers around the world rely, at least in part on phosphorus-based fertilizers in order to sustain and improve crop yields. But the overuse of phosphorus can lead to freshwater pollution and the development of a host of problems, such as the spread of blue-green algae in lakes and the growth of coastal "˜dead zones'.A further...