{
  "id": 18408538,
  "title": "Climate shapes microbial nitrogen pump in forests, not in farmlands",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/climate-shapes-microbial-nitrogen-pump-in-forests-not-in-farmlands",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-06T00:20:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-climate-microbial-nitrogen-forests-farmlands.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Microbes build a long-lived nitrogen reservoir in soil from the remains of dead bacteria and fungi, which cling to minerals and resist decay. The microbial nitrogen pump turns nitrogen taken up by living microbes into this persistent pool, and microbial nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) has long been assumed to regulate this process.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}