The capacity of soil to hold water will be critical to determine how well farms in some regions of the United States manage the problem of prolonged heat stress due to climate change, a new study suggests. The journal Frontiers ...
Ecology
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Whether to spend money on outer space exploration or to apply it to solve serious problems on Earth, like climate change and food shortages, is a contentious debate. But one argument in favor of space exploration highlights ...
Space Exploration
Jul 12, 2022
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Nitric oxide (NO) is a major contributor to atmospheric pollution, and forest soil is an important source of NO emission. However, there are great uncertainties in global forest soil NO emission due to lack of high-frequency ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 8, 2022
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Central Asia is highly agrarian, and most of the croplands rely on irrigation due to sparce precipitation. How this irrigation affects the regional climate in Central Asia however, is not clear.
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2022
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Researchers from Cornell University, Ohio State University, Technical University of Munich, and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station are using synchrotron light to investigate how moisture affects soil carbon—an ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 20, 2022
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Planting cover crops is a beneficial agricultural practice. One of their many benefits is to cover soil for times when farmers cannot plant cash crops like corn and soy—over the winter, for example. But it is not as simple ...
Agriculture
May 31, 2022
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An "internet of things"—or IoT—system monitoring real-time data from soil-based sensors to activate an automated precision irrigation setup can conserve water and boost crop production, according to a team of Penn State ...
Biotechnology
May 18, 2022
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Last summer, a deadly wave of heat struck the Pacific Northwest, causing temperatures to soar more than 30 degrees Fahrenheit above normal and killing more than a thousand people.
Earth Sciences
May 13, 2022
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Grassland ecosystems are being invaded by shrubs around the world, especially in temperate semi-arid regions of the Northern Hemisphere, under the influences of climate change and human activities.
Environment
Apr 18, 2022
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Permafrost degradation has been confirmed in high-altitude and high-latitude regions during past decades. Long-term warming processes can greatly affect permafrost changes. Notably, the transient extreme warming events can ...
Environment
Mar 23, 2022
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