soils

Specially-designed soils could help combat climate change

harminka — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:34:17 -0500

Could part of the answer to saving the Earth from global warming lie in the earth beneath our feet?

Large source of nitrate, a potential water contaminant, found in near-surface desert soils

harminka — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:04:22 -0600

A UC Riverside-led study in the Mojave Desert, Calif., has found that soils under “desert pavement” have an unusually high concentration of nitrate, a type of salt, close to the surface.

New insights into fate of antiparasitics in manured soils

harminka — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:11:40 -0600

In recent years, there has been growing interest in the question, if the entry of veterinary medicinal products (VMP) into soils via manure application is of environmental relevance.

Why do autumn leaves bother to turn red?

harminka — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:21:22 -0500

Soils may dictate the array of fall colors as much as the trees rooted in them, according to a forest survey out of North Carolina.

Researcher engineers sorghum that grows in poisonous soils

harminka — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:36:18 -0500

When soils are too acidic, aluminum that is locked up in clay minerals dissolves into the soil as toxic, electrically charged particles called ions, making it hard for most plants to grow. In fact, aluminum toxicity in acidic soils limits crop production in as much as half the world's arable land, mostly in developing countries in Africa, Asia and South America.

Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields'

harminka — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:30:11 -0500

Traditional plow-based agricultural methods and the need to feed a rapidly growing world population are combining to deplete the Earth's soil supply, a new study confirms.

Decoding mushroom's secrets could combat carbon, find better biofuels

harminka — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:56:39 -0500

Researchers at the University of Warwick are co-ordinating a global effort to sequence the genome of one of the World’s most important mushrooms - Agaricus bisporus. The secrets of its genetic make up could assist the creation of biofuels, support the effort to manage global carbon, and help remove heavy metals from contaminated soils.

Scientists observe drumlin beneath ice sheet

harminka — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:07:07 -0600