Nitrogen: A Global Challenge

Nitrogen has a leading role to play when it comes to the global challenges we currently face.  

This innovative course, regardless of your background, will teach you core concepts about nitrogen and global change, allowing you to better understand the challenges and opportunities it represents. Key topics include food security, climate change, air pollution, water pollution, human health and more.

Learn through the award-winning teaching approaches of the University of Edinburgh’s faculty team. This course brings an engaging and expert approach to the global challenges of nitrogen, showing how the threats it poses for human civilization can be better integrated and tackled.

This course is also available with captions in the following languages:

• Bengali
• Bhutan
• Chinese
• Dari
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Maldivian
• Nepalese
• Portuguese
• Sinhalese
• Spanish
• Urdu

• Learn about the global nitrogen challenge, how nitrogen has helped human civilization to develop, and how its misuse now threatens us
• Discover how fundamental nitrogen is to agriculture and food security
• Understand the role of nitrogen in air pollution and its impact on human health
• Learn how nitrogen can pollute our water and the risks that then arise
• Examine the solutions to the global challenges of nitrogen and how we can better manage this precious element 

This introductory course is for anyone interested in food security and environmental issues.  

Introductory: No previous knowledge required