The world's salty, tidal marshes are hotspots of carbon storage and productivity, building up sediments and plant material to stay above sea level. However, as sea level rises at an increasing rate, scientists debate whether ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 28, 2023
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Global warming will cause the world's soil to release carbon, new research shows.
Environment
Nov 18, 2021
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Yellow-cedar, a culturally and economically valuable tree in southeastern Alaska and adjacent parts of British Columbia, has been dying off across large expanses of these areas for the past 100 years. But no one could say ...
Environment
Feb 1, 2012
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Plastic mulches have been used in vegetable production in the United States since the 1950s. Black plastic (polyethylene) mulch, which alters the plant's growing environment by generating warmer soil temperatures and holding ...
Other
Apr 19, 2010
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There is more than twice as much carbon in the planet's soils than there is in its atmosphere, so the loss of even a small proportion of that could have a profound feedback effect on the global climate.
Environment
Aug 2, 2016
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Nothing against bloodhounds, but finding bodies buried by someone who wanted them to stay undiscovered can be difficult. However a new technique developed by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 30, 2010
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Scientists have discovered a thriving population of Mediterranean earthworms in an urban farm in Dublin, Ireland.
Ecology
Jul 25, 2012
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On 28 February 2019, 'Mole' fully automatically hammered its way into the Martian subsurface for the first time. In a first step, it penetrated to a depth between 18 and 50 centimetres into the Martian soil with 4000 hammer ...
Space Exploration
Mar 4, 2019
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Warmer, wetter conditions in the Arctic are accelerating the loss of carbon stored in tundra and permafrost soils, creating a potential positive feedback that further boosts global temperatures, a Dartmouth College study ...
Environment
Mar 16, 2016
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Farmers across the world could jack up giant profits using an Artificial Intelligence soil monitoring system developed at Brunel University London.
Environment
Nov 27, 2019
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