“So 200-bu. corn takes up 34 lb. of sulfur per acre.” That figure is even more impressive if you think of it in terms of sulfate, which is the form of sulfur that plants actually can use—102 l ...

“It’s time to revisit sulfur.” At his farm in central Illinois, Ferrie says in the early ’80s testing for sulfate in late summer would have returned a reading near 30 parts per million (ppm ...

Sulfates, where sulfur and oxygen bind with a cation, are also common; the gypsum used to make drywall boards and PVC pipes is calcium sulfate, for example. The abundance of sulfide and sulfate ...

Chinese researchers traced 2023 Icelandic volcanic emissions to Arctic smog, showing 80% of Ny-Ålesund’s sulfur dioxide came from the eruption. A research team led by Professors Si Fuqi and Yuhan Luo ...

Then, other microbes convert the sulfide back to sulfate. Like on early Earth, the sinkhole microbes use the sulfur molecules for creating organic matter and obtaining energy. All living organisms ...