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..., WI, MAY 18, 2007 Storing carbon in agricultural soils presents an immediate option to reduce atmospheric...rbon more rapidly under no-tillage management than soils with little clay content, others have found that clay content has no affect on carbon storage rates ...Oregon researchers involved in new Clovis-age impact theory
... Some of those ingredients were found worldwide in soils dating to the K-T Boundary of 65 million years ago. The K-T layer marks the end of the Cretaceous Period and the beginning of the Tertiary Period, when numerous species were wiped out after a massive asteroid is believed to have struck Mexico's Yuc...Recycled garden compost reduces phosphorus in soils
...oil chemical and physical properties with unfarmed soils in the greater Sydney metropolitan area. Lead author, DPI principal research scientist, Dr Yin Chan, said current management practices used for producing vegetables had reduced the structural stability of the soil and increased the potential for ru...Soils offer new hope as carbon sink
The huge potential of agricultural soils to reduce greenhouse gases and increase production...hailed as a saviour of Australia's carbon-depleted soils and the environment - have doubled and, in one case, tripled crop growth when applied at the rate of...Smithsonian scientists connect climate change, origins of agriculture in Mexico
...ts for human populations who exploited the fertile soils and rich aquatic resources the lakes contained. The researchers found prehistoric pottery sherds and other artifacts in sediments at the edges of the lakes. At one lake, phytolith data shows that maize and squash were probably planted at the fertile ...A new plant-bacterial symbiotic mechanism promising for crop applications
...n contribute to vegetation regeneration schemes on soils depleted in nitrogen owing to overexploitation, er...p achieve ecological restoration, by enriching the soils in nitrogen. However, the symbiotic processes studied predominantly concern the leguminous plants of......neficial effects undernutrient poor conditions. On soils where little nutritional potassium is available, a commonproblem after many years of agricultural production, plants can take up sodium through theOsHKT2;1 transporter to replace some of the functions of potassium and actually enhancegrowth. This imp...Researchers demonstrate way to control tree height
...t is needed, such as in bioremediation of polluted soils or in very windy, limited soil moisture situations. From an environmental viewpoint, the researchers said, dwarfed trees such as this are unlikely to be any kind of threat to spread, because they would compete very poorly with normal or wild trees....... your search in most U.S. cities. After all, urban soils are often viewed as drastically disturbed soils with low fertility. However, new research by a team of scientists working in Baltimore discovered th...MIT tool determines landslide risk in tropics
...heavy rains loosen layers of surface soil. Surface soils in tropical and subtropical areas tend to be residual--that is, they're created when the underlying bedrock deteriorates--rather than sedimentary, which is soil that has been laid down by flowing water or wind, said Einstein, whose research focuses o...Satellite images reveal link between urban growth and changing rainfall patterns
... to asphalt, roads and buildings. As a result, the soils have significantly less ability to absorb water, so in the winter months there is less moisture in the atmosphere and therefore a reduction in precipitation. We don't see the same impact in summer months, in part because the effect of the Asian monso...Soil particles found to boost prion's capacity to infect
...e of montmorillonite clay." What is occurring in soils in the woods and on the farm is unknown, says Pede...nimals," according to Aiken. Pedersen notes that soils are a complex mixture of organic and inorganic components that vary across the landscape and that sc...A new plant-bacterial symbiotic mechanism promising
...n contribute to vegetation regeneration schemes on soils depleted in nitrogen owing to overexploitation, er...p achieve ecological restoration, by enriching the soils in nitrogen. However, the symbiotic processes studied predominantly concern the leguminous plants of...Decoding mushroom's secrets could combat carbon, find better biofuels and safer soils
...r carbon cycling studies. Carbon is sequestered in soils as plant organic matter. Between 12 giga tons of c...ecies are able to hyper-accumulate toxic metals in soils at a higher level than many other fungi. Understanding how the mushroom does this improves prospects...N.C. A&T food scientist develops process for allergen-free peanuts
... developing nations, and Africa in particular, the soils and climate are especially suitable for peanuts. Peanuts are not only important commercially, but nutritionally as well. Packed with proteins, healthy fats and a broad array of essential vitamins and minerals, they are considered an almost complet...Innovative research technique reveals another natural wonder in Yellowstone Park
... Acidobacteria have been found in poor or polluted soils that are acidic, with a pH below three. However, the Yellowstone Cab. thermophilum lived in more alkaline environments that are about pH 8.5 (on a 1-14 scale). "Finding a previously unknown, chlorophyll-producing microbe is the discovery of a lifet...Surprising new species of light-harvesting bacterium discovered in Yellowstone
... Acidobacteria have been found in poor or polluted soils that are acidic, with a pH below 3. However, the Yellowstone environments are more alkaline, about pH 8.5 (on a scale of 1 to 14). Bryant notes, "Judging from their 16S rRNA sequences, the closest relatives of Cab. thermophilum are found around Mam...