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Biosolids microbes pose manageable risk to workers
Oct 27, 2008 |
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Class B biosolids are sewage sludges that have been treated to contain fewer than 2.0 x 106 fecal coliforms/dry gram. The USEPA estimates that 6.3 million tonnes of Class B biosolids are generated in the United States each ...
Dioxin risk in soil and plant tissues after long-term biosolids application
Jul 14, 2008 |
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Land application of biosolids (treated municipal sewage sludge) is a common practice because biosolids are a rich source of plant nutrients and organic matter. However, the presence of detectable levels of dioxins in biosolids ...
Satellites help map soil carbon flux
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2008 |
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Changes in soil carbon occur with changes in land management. Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and The University of Tennessee investigated quantifying soil carbon changes over large regions.
Incentives for carbon sequestration may not protect species
Jul 07, 2008 |
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Paying rural landowners in Oregon's Willamette Basin to protect at-risk animals won't necessarily mean that their newly conserved trees and plants will absorb more carbon from the atmosphere and vice versa, a new study has ...
Researchers fly a kite for manure recycling
Nov 28, 2008 |
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Researchers at North Wyke Research, and Lancaster and Exeter universities, have come up with an advice system to help farmers recycle manure safely and avoid polluting watercourses.
Intensive land management leaves Europe without carbon sinks
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 23, 2009 |
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A new calculation of Europe's greenhouse gas balance shows that emissions of methane and nitrous oxide tip the balance and eliminate Europe's terrestrial sink of greenhouse gases.
Researchers fly a kite for manure recycling
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Researchers at North Wyke Research, and Lancaster and Exeter universities, have come up with an advice system to help farmers recycle manure safely and avoid polluting watercourses.
Why are we losing Louisiana?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 16, 2007 |
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The Mississippi Delta region was losing land long before Hurricane Katrina came ashore. But the correlation between land loss and the risk of flooding in the region is now more evident than ever.
Wind, salt and water are leading indicators of land degradation in Abu Dhabi
May 06, 2009 |
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Desert environments are characterized by poor vegetative cover, strong winds, dry, non-cohesive sandy soils, and hyper-arid conditions. In this context, the land resources of Abu Dhabi Emirate in the United Arab Emirates ...
Satellite data instrumental in combating desertification
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 07, 2009 |
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With land degradation in dryland regions continuing to worsen, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification has agreed on scientist-recommended indicators for monitoring and assessing desertification that signatory ...
Simulating pharmaceutical and personal care product transport
May 19, 2009 |
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Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) carried in biosolids (i.e., treated sewage sludge) may reach surface waters or groundwater when these materials are applied as fertilizer to agricultural land. During the ...
Study of agricultural watersheds and carbon losses
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Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) losses from tile drains are an underquantified portion of the terrestrial carbon cycle. This is particularly important in the eastern corn belt where tile drainage dominates the agricultural ...
Land iguanas under continuing threat on Galapagos archipelago
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Nov 26, 2008 |
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The Galápagos Islands, which provided impetus and inspiration for Charles Darwin's seminal work, "On the Origin of Species", are home to unique populations of reptiles. Since the time of man's first visit in the 16th century ...
Salt-tolerant gene found in simple plant nothing to sneeze at
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Apr 07, 2008 |
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Whether a plant withers unproductively or thrives in salty conditions may now be better understood by biologists. The cellular mechanism that controls salt tolerance has been found in the arabidopsis plant by a Texas AgriLife ...
Study: Destroying native ecosystems for biofuel crops worsens global warming
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Turning native ecosystems into “farms” for biofuel crops causes major carbon emissions that worsen the global warming that biofuels are meant to mitigate, according to a new study by the University of Minnesota and the Nature ...
