News tagged with rich soil
Biodiversity enhances ecosystems global drylands: researchers
An international team of researchers including Dr. Bertrand Boeken of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev suggest in a new study that plant biodiversity preservation is ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Diverse ecosystems are crucial climate change buffer
Preserving diverse plant life will be crucial to buffer the negative effects of climate change and desertification in in the world's drylands, according to a new landmark study.
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Indoor Composting With NatureMill (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many people throw out organic food waste. When I do this, I feel vaguely guilty, knowing I should probably compost it for my backyard garden. However, last time we tried to compost, the neighbors ...
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Carbonized coffee grounds remove foul smells
For coffee lovers, the first cup of the morning is one of life's best aromas. But did you know that the leftover grounds could eliminate one of the worst smells around – sewer gas?
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Green potential of our industrial past
Manipulating the soil in urban and industrial areas in order to capture more carbon from the atmosphere is the “best resource we have to begin to mitigate human CO2 emissions”, experts claim.
Feb 02, 2012 |
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New biodiversity map of the Andes shows species in dire need of protection
The Andes-Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia is one of the most biologically rich and rapidly changing areas of the world. A new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Ecology has used information collec ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Living on the edge: An innovative model of mangrove-hammock boundaries in Florida
The key to understanding how future hurricanes and sea level rise may trigger changes to South Florida's native coastal forests lurks below the surface, according to a new model linking coastal forests to groundwater. Just ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Vesta likely cold and dark enough for ice
(PhysOrg.com) -- Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Restored wetlands rarely equal condition of original wetlands
Wetland restoration is a billion-dollar-a-year industry in the United States that aims to create ecosystems similar to those that disappeared over the past century. But a new analysis of restoration projects ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Team finds natural reasons behind nitrogen-rich forests
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many tropical forests are extremely rich in nitrogen even when there are no farms or industries nearby, says Montana State University researcher Jack Brookshire.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Acid rain poses a previously unrecognized threat to Great Lakes sugar maples
(PhysOrg.com) -- The number of sugar maples in Upper Great Lakes forests is likely to decline in coming decades, according to University of Michigan ecologists and their colleagues, due to a previously unrecognized ...
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Researchers discover novel chemical route to form organic molecules
An international team of scientists led by University of Hawai‘i at M?noa Professor Ralf I. Kaiser, Alexander M. Mebel of Florida International University, and Alexander Tielens of Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, ...
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Scientists study how nature cleans uranium from Colorado aquifer
Rifle, Colorado, is a small town on the Colorado River, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, that's big on natural resources. It attracts hunters, fishermen, hikers, rock climbers. Its striking scenery attracted ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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