In addition, on land, increasing temperatures are causing permanently frozen soils, known as permafrost, to become not-so-permanently frozen soils.
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In liquefaction-prone soils, pore pressure rises following shaking, as was the case when the researchers shook their test soils in June.
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Rangeland deterioration accelerates as cattle compact soils and trample the fragile soil biocrusts that are so important to maintaining water and nutrients in arid desert soils.
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Shockingly, Schuster's team found that "permafrost soils store nearly twice as much Hg as all other soils, the ocean, and the atmosphere combined," according to the study.
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The soils are not volcanic like Etna's, but Mr. Harvey believes the elevation, the proximity to the ocean and the site's diverse rocky soils will be just right for carricante.
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While the Mojave Desert has been used to study soils that have the same geochemical content as those on Mars, the soils there have one big shortfall—they're not frozen.
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Tatiana Morin, the director of the NYC Urban Soils Institute, said she hopes that legitimate concerns about lead won't blind people to the essential services that New York's soils provide.
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Inconsistency might also be attributed to differences in microclimates, altitude and soils, with some of the wines coming from limestone, sandstone and marl, and others coming from clay-rich soils.
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It needs the right soils and careful husbandry to thrive.
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Soft soils or hard granite can cause them to slide.
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Soils are delicate and have to be taken care of.
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You don't have the two same soils in different places.
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Once dry, Florida's peat soils ignited in smoldering muck fires.
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So that depends on healthy fungal populations in agricultural soils.
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It was made from cinsault grapes grown in granitic soils.
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There is more than three times as much carbon in the world's soils than in the atmosphere, and scientists say that with better management, agricultural soils could absorb much more carbon in the future.
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Backyard soils can lock in more planet-warming carbon emissions than soils found in native grasslands or urban forests like arboretums, according to Carly Ziter, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Wetter soils slow their warming, which is needed for proper development.
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Wines produced from each of these soils are just as different.
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Today, this is causing the marshes' thick peat soils to collapse.
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Could gassy, decomposing permafrost soils be a harbinger of our future?
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Even if it is, soils probably can't soak up carbon indefinitely.
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Dirt soils the outfits we wrecked our credit scores to buy.
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They create the habitats and the soils that we benefit from.
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It's also got one of the youngest soils in the world.
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It thrives in certain soils and with a long growing season.
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It grows best in wet situations but adapts to dry soils.
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Plants also have evolved different adaptations to their sprouting environments, helping some smaller seeds thrive in drier, less nutritious soils, while larger seeds often are able to take advantage of richer soils that hold water better.
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The grass species that were domesticated to form cereal crops such as maize, rice and wheat are likely to have grown in poor soils -- and plants that have adapted to such soils generally have conservative food strategies.
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Mencía is also grown in the neighboring region of Bierzo, but the wines made from grapes grown in its warmer climate and alluvial soils are strikingly different from those from Ribeira Sacra's cooler climate and slate soils.
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"The soils before were much better, more fertile than now," he says.
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Even though Amazon soils are naturally nutrient poor, forests can naturally blossom.
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Saturated soils will exacerbate the risk of flooding and could trigger mudslides.
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Soils are one of the largest reservoirs of microbial diversity on Earth.
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An illegal gold miner scours the forest soils in Suriname, South America.
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So we have Old World soils and climate in the New World.
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The soils provide strength and freshness in the wines, Mr. Landi said.
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We farm the Midwest, where the soils, rain and temperatures are ideal.
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We farm the Midwest, where the soils, rain and temperatures are ideal.
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This vineyard, though, is on sandy soils, in which phylloxera cannot survive.
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Merlot is superbly adapted to the region's rich clay and gravel soils.
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Trees, loose soils and permeable material on roads also help, they say.
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Some midges live on islands with grainy, sandy soils that dry up.
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Their soils don't decompose because they have very little oxygen in them.
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Boat traffic stopped, fresh water receded and seawater seeped inland, degrading soils.
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"If you want to look at frozen soils and do things like sublimation, test drill bits and rover wheel designs, or watch these soils over time, the tunnel is wonderful because it's frozen and accessible year-round," Douglas said.
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The air mass, for instance, can fertilize soils in the Amazon River Basin.
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Peat forests also take far longer to regenerate than forests on mineral soils.
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Hard rock is more stable and loose materials — sands, dirts, soils — are weaker.
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Meanwhile squeezed smallholders farm their shrinking plots too intensively, degrading already poor soils.
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In addition, its soils and water are saline and struggle to support agriculture.
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It lingers in soils and water for much longer than studies once suggested.
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The flooded soils in rice paddies are rich environments for methane-producing microbes.
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Many are outraged about why the dangerous soils weren't identified and removed earlier.
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They pull carbon from the atmosphere, storing it in trees, plants and soils.
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"Our soils, really, in the whole world, are pretty trashed," Ms. Bonhotal said.
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There isn't the trademark bounciness that typically soils the ride of a pickup.
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Like cranberries, blueberries thrive in acidic soils, which the Pinelands have in abundance.
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So in the vast, figuratively crappy soils of Middle America, cows reign supreme. .
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One is known as "cover subsidence" and is most common in sandier soils.
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The soils produced by the 700-year-old practice, known as "African dark earths", contain up to 300 percent more organic carbon than other soils, and are capable of supporting far more intensive farming, said the anthropologist behind the study.
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The fungus is known to thrive in areas with warm temperatures and dry soils.
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The process has been a challenge because the soils of Mendoza are incredibly complicated.
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Ireland also bars commercial planting on the poorest soils, where young trees would struggle.
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After independence, governments doled out maize seed and fertiliser, even where soils were unsuitable.
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Exhausted soils suddenly became fertile again, and it boosted crop yields by 21900 percent.
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As with hoes and hard soils, there are no easy breakthroughs to be had.
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Droughts also exacerbate wildfire risk, since parched soils and dry vegetation burn more easily.
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Scientists are still unsure how much carbon can realistically be stored in agricultural soils.
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To find a cicada killer look for sandy soils near woodlands that host cicadas.
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Each element of the undulating terrain is different, with varying microclimates, exposures and soils.
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As recently as the 1940s, vines covered almost 2,210 acres of these sandy soils.
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But as the climate warms wetland soils, microbial metabolism increases, releasing additional greenhouse gases.
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For centuries, formidable interests had battled over the fruitful soils of the Philippine archipelago.
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Throughout the Midwest, soils are saturated, making it difficult for farmers to plant crops.
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Tired soils, erratic rains and the costs of modern life leave many families in poverty.
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Several record-smashingly hot summers have caused the island's permafrost soils to melt and buckle.
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They had some early success with germinating plants in both the lunar and Martian soils.
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Farmers moved in and cleared the area, triggering the onset of exposure to these soils.
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Soil can protect the plants, but the cold tends to penetrate dry soils more easily.
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I've found certain wines, especially those from volcanic soils, to have a bloody, iron character.
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With its sandy, glacial soils and maritime climate, it lends itself to fresh, invigorating wines.
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"The desert soils are dry and compact," National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Lericos told SFGate.
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The plant has no trouble growing in soils that are little more than urban rubble.
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The Amazon, with all its plants, animals, and soils, is an enormous reservoir of carbon.
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Possibly, the grapes came from soils with more clay, which contributes to fleshiness and fruit.
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"We can grow these plants on soils where it's already been deforested," Dr. Baker said.
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These wines all have the fiano grape and the volcanic soils of Campania in common.
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This is affecting not only the animals and plants, but also the soils I study.
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That's how a morally bankrupt president soils everyone around him, even such a good man.
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Farmers generally cannot plant seeds into overly wet soils because heavy equipment can easily get stuck.
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Rain can also wash out soils on farms, triggering nutrient- and chemical-filled runoffs into lakes.
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The show explores human nature, particularly what it means to be human, through the transient soils.
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Those from rockier soils, often with some limestone, tended to be more structured, precise and nuanced.
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But there's a tragic irony to clearing rainforests for agriculture: their underlying soils are extremely poor.
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In mostly agricultural societies, farmers must scratch livings from smaller plots on ever less fertile soils.
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"Some of the most Mars-like soils on Earth are in the Atacama Desert," said Pointing.
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That will be bad for soils and bad for fish; the sediments provide the river's nutrients.
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Melting sea ice around Shishmaref is washing away the thawing arctic soils, leading to extreme erosion.
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The Earth has a few carbon sinks for sequestration: the oceans, the soils and the trees.
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That's nearly as much carbon as all the world's forests and soils currently absorb each year.
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Degraded soils are a big concern in New York, where lead contamination levels can be high.
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Their soils are being degraded because they are farmed too intensively, and often using damaging practices.
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The boy was exposed to many different soils and animals over the past year or so.
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Soils are being degraded because they are farmed too intensively and often by using damaging practices.
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They regulate and stabilize water flow and weather patterns, enrich soils, prevent erosion and sequester carbon.
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"Most of that topography consists of lighter soils and isn't much good for crops," he says.
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The new research, published by an international team of nearly 50 scientists, found that soil carbon losses from Arctic soils, where carbon amounts are especially high, are likely to tip the scale toward more carbon being lost from the planet's soils than plants can deposit through photosynthesis.
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This number is likely to increase as temperatures rise, drying out soils faster and raising fire risks.
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The world's soils are important because they contain two to three times more carbon than the atmosphere.
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The ash will infiltrate soils, but no one's really sure how or whether that'll be a problem.
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So NASA wants to pick an area with a variety of different rocks and soils to study.
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Well-nourished soils are better at absorbing carbon dioxide rather than allowing it to enter the atmosphere.
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"These rates, in combination with saturated soils, will result in rapid flash flooding," the weather service said.
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In the acidic rain forest soils, no organic remains survive — not even the bones of the dead.
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It works wonders in test plots, but is less effective in real fields, especially in acid soils.
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Worse, the interior is home to stiffer soils over unbroken bedrock, so shaking is felt more intensely.
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Levels of those isotopes vary between soils, and different varieties of plant absorb them in different quantities.
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Jake Misch's family has been growing corn in the sandy soils of northwestern Indiana for four generations.
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Luminescence dating measures the amount of light emitted from the energy stored in certain rocks and soils.
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California's Healthy Soils Initiative, which Wick helped shape, explicitly enlists agriculture in the fight against climate change.
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The fecund soils of its green capital, Kigali, sprout aid-agency offices like grass after the rains.
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This is especially true in the tropics, home to dense forests, peatlands, and soils teeming with carbon.
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The cheapest ways to capture carbon are on the bottom of this chart – in soils and forests.
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Police said it leaks mercury into area soils and generates other crimes, including prostitution and child labor.
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Taking a backhoe to the gravelly soils, largely of decomposed sandstone with quartz, he found excellent drainage.
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As my grandmother told, there was nothing in Crimea — except salted soils, sunburnt steppe and the sea.
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Soils must be closer to 213.3 degrees F (333 degrees C) for field work to begin. (tmsnrt.
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Going back to when the corn crop was planted in April and May, soils were generally wet.
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Where there are trees higher up, their roots and richer soils absorb rain, which decreases flooding below.
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The soils there are often clay and tuffeau, a form of limestone, as well as flinty silex.
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But the technology has the additional value of enabling areas with toxic soils to be made productive.
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At least 1,300 species of water bear swim in Earth's waters and crawl in its moist soils.
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Soils that acid rain has stripped of calcium ions, for example, take a long time to recover.
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It pushes up through the sidewalk cracks and crumbling, asphalt-laden soils in the most urban settings.
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Among other things, roofs must be properly sealed and lightweight soils used to minimize added weight loads.
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An Urban Soils Symposium was held at the New York Botanical Garden last year, attracting scientists from around the world, who spoke about how city soils can be used to grow more food, improve storm drainage and counter global warming by taking excess carbon out of the atmosphere.
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In addition to testing the capacity of urban soils to suck carbon dioxide and nitrogen from the atmosphere, they want to find out what precise mix of compost, sediment and cover crops can best transform the sterile sediments that abound deep below the city's neighborhoods into productive soils.
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A set of four slugs, 3-D printed in clear resin, represent machines engineered to neutralize acidic soils.
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Over time, the highly organic, dark brown-to-black muck soils that characterize peatlands can compress into coal.
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Can you imagine how the food section of a supermarket would look like if we had no soils?
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"It grows really well in a large range of climates and a large range of soils," he said.
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The agency said already saturated soils could also lead to flash flood conditions of some streams and rivers.
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Indigenous pulses provide a valuable source of nutrition, particularly protein, while also enriching the soils they grow in.
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This isn't a reason to stop swapping, he clarified, as gardeners can gradually acclimate plants to new soils.
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About a third of the world's soils are degraded because of soil erosion, contamination, urbanization and other issues.
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Dried out soils and widespread tree deaths, make trees and other vegetation more susceptible to fast spreading flames.
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Soils in C's area are lower in quality relative to the most highly productive ground in the state.
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Many of the Siberian and Alaskan fires are burning carbon-dense peat soils, which would normally be waterlogged.
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Farms are complex systems of soils, pests, air, water, trees, grasses, insects and animals interacting with one another.
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He covered one wine producer's efforts to restore healthy soils, which can help offset emissions by storing carbon.
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Soils also will be tested after the removal of debris, and toxic soil removed if needed, officials said.
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Whitlow grass blooms in the poorest of soils — look for it where cultivated plants have had trouble establishing.
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Backyard soil can lock in more planet-warming emissions than soils found in native grasslands or urban forests.
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And the jumble of soils and microclimates makes it difficult to find a coherent way of organizing appellations.
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For most gardens, you want some well-mixed compost and all those things that go into good soils.
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The most likely one is that oceans or soils are absorbing less carbon dioxide than in the past.
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In India, some farmers have replaced rice with millet, an ancient grain that thrives in parched, infertile soils.
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"The soils in the slide area are likely geologically young, loose, sandy materials with shallow groundwater," said Stewart.
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Both produce far more carbon emissions than aviation, use huge amounts of water and pollute soils and rivers.
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