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Study: Tropical wetlands hold more carbon than temperate marshes
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Oct 08, 2008 |
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In one of the first comparisons of its kind, researchers have demonstrated that wetlands in tropical areas are able to absorb and hold onto about 80 percent more carbon than can wetlands in temperate zones.
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Color analysis rapidly predicts carbon content of soil
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Mar 12, 2007 |
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Scientists at Iowa Sate University recently discovered that simply looking at soil color is reasonably as accurate as time-consuming and expensive laboratory tests. Soil color can be used as a simple, inexpensive method to ...
It's not just dirt!
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Soil is the linchpin of the environment, where atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere meet. Despite that, many students see soil as "just dirt" - a place to grow plants, but nothing more. Soil science educators are challenged ...
Researcher seeks 'missing piece' in climate change models
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Feb 13, 2007 |
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To most people, soil is just dirt. But to microbiologists, it is a veritable zoo of bacteria, fungi and nematodes. It's also a vast carbon dioxide factory. As these microorganisms consume carbon-based materials found in soil, ...
Newly drilled ice cores may be the longest taken from the Andes
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Nov 02, 2009 |
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Researchers spent two months this summer high in the Peruvian Andes and brought back two cores, the longest ever drilled from ice fields in the tropics.
Global warming plus natural bacteria could release vast carbon deposits currently stored in Arctic soil
May 06, 2005 |
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Increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will make global temperatures rise. By studying soil cores from the Arctic, scientists have discovered that this rise in temperature stimulates the growth of microorganisms ...
When roots lose contact
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Plant roots can shrink as a result of water deficit and lose contact with the surrounding soil. This effect has been suspected for a long time, but has only now been demonstrated for a fact with the help of ...
Warming climate may cause arctic tundra to burn
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Research from ancient sediment cores indicates that a warming climate could make the world’s arctic tundra far more susceptible to fires than previously thought. The findings, published this week in the online journal, PLoS ON ...
ARS Explores Ways to Keep Carbon in the Soil
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are testing out alternative ways of tilling the soil and rotating crops to see if they can help wheat farmers in Oregon sequester more carbon ...
Answering that age-old lament: Where does all this dust come from?
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Where does it come from? Scientists in Arizona are reporting a surprising answer to that question, which has puzzled and perplexed generations of men and women confronted with layers of dust on furniture and ...
Studying Fertilizers to Cut Greenhouse Gases
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found that using alternative types of fertilizers can cut back on greenhouse gas emissions, at least in one part of the country. They are ...
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