Our nitrogen (N) use provides great benefits as fertilizer for food production and materials for industrial production. However, the production and consumption of food, goods, and energy induce a huge amount of reactive N (N compounds other than inert and harmless dinitrogen) loss to the environment that threatens human and ecosystem health through various N pollution. This is the N issue, i.e., a tradeoff between benefits of our N use and threats of N pollution accompanied. The Sustai-N-able project conducts inter- and trans-disciplinary research towards sustainable nitrogen use for future generations.

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