Nitrate in drinking water and risk of birth defects: Findings from a cohort study of over one million births in Denmark

LT Stayner, AS Jensen, J Schullehner… - The Lancet Regional …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background A few studies have reported an increased risk of birth defects (BD) with
maternal exposure to nitrate in drinking water. We examined this association in a large …

Modeling groundwater redox conditions at national scale through integration of sediment color and water chemistry in a machine learning framework

J Koch, H Kim, J Tirado-Conde, B Hansen… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Redox conditions play a crucial role in determining the fate of many contaminants in
groundwater, impacting ecosystem services vital for both the aquatic environment and …

Hydrogeology and groundwater quality in the Nordic and Baltic countries

NO Kitterød, J Kværner, P Aagaard, J Arustienė… - Hydrology …, 2022 - iwaponline.com
Groundwater utilization and groundwater quality vary in the Baltic and Nordic countries
mainly because of different geological settings. Based on the geology, the countries were …

Anthropogenic contaminants in glacial environments II: release and downstream consequences

DB Beard, CC Clason, S Rangecroft… - Progress in …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Anthropogenic contamination has been detected in glacial and proglacial environments
around the globe. Through mechanisms of secondary release, these contaminants are …

A 3D hydrogeochemistry model of nitrate transport and fate in a glacial sediment catchment: A first step toward a numerical model

H Kim, PBE Sandersen, R Jakobsen… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Diffuse pollution of nitrate from agricultural fields is a critical environmental problem around
the world. Sources and sinks of nitrate are heterogeneously distributed over various spatial …

Groundwater nitrate problem and countermeasures in strongly affected EU countries—A comparison between Germany, Denmark and Ireland

F Ortmeyer, B Hansen, A Banning - Grundwasser, 2023 - Springer
Water resources protection co-occurring with intensive agriculture brings major challenges
in Europe including groundwater contamination with nitrate (NO3−). Due to non-compliance …

Distinct depth-discrete profiles of microbial communities and geochemical insights in the subsurface critical zone

X Wu, S Gushgari-Doyle, LM Lui… - Applied and …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbial assembly and metabolic potential in the subsurface critical zone (SCZ) are
substantially impacted by subsurface geochemistry and hydrogeology, selecting for …

[HTML][HTML] 3D multiple-point geostatistical simulation of joint subsurface redox and geological architectures

RB Madsen, H Kim, AJ Kallesøe… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Nitrate contamination of subsurface aquifers is an ongoing environmental challenge due to
nitrogen (N) leaching from intensive N fertilization and management on agricultural fields …

Assessing groundwater denitrification spatially is the key to targeted agricultural nitrogen regulation

B Hansen, J Aamand, G Blicher-Mathiesen… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Globally, food production for an ever-growing population is a well-known threat to the
environment due to losses of excess reactive nitrogen (N) from agriculture. Since the 1980s …

High nitrous oxide emissions from temporary flooded depressions within croplands

BB Elberling, GM Kovács, HFE Hansen… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Nitrous oxide is an important greenhouse gas and emissions from managed ecosystems are
directly correlated to anthropogenic nitrogen input. Here we have measured nitrous oxide …