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Afforestation, planting trees in an area where there have previously been no trees, can reduce the effect of climate change by cooling temperate regions finds a study in BioMed Central's open access journal Carbon Balance and Management. Afforestation would lead to cooler and wetter summers by the end of this century. Without check climate change is projected to lead to summer droughts and winter floods across Europe. Using REMO, the regional climate model of the Max Planck Institute for...
TIFTON, Ga., Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Continental Who's Who/- Sherry Carlson is recognized by Continental Who's Who as a Pinnacle Professional in the field of Scientific Research. Sherry is a Resource Soil Scientist with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. As a Resource Soil Scientist, Sherry's responsibilities include technical soil services such as wetland determinations for USDA program participants and the dissemination of soil survey maps and land-use...
[289 Pages Report] Soil Treatment Market report segmented global market of Pest & Weed Control, Organic Amendments and pH Adjusters by types & geography; forecasting revenue, volume and analyzing trends. (PRWEB) January 25, 2013 The report “Global Soil Treatment Market by Types (Organic Amendments, Pest & Weed Control, pH Adjusters) and Geography: Trends & Forecasts to 2017” defines and segments the global soil treatment market with analysis and forecasting of the...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to a study published in the online journal PLOS ONE, there is a rich diversity of microbial life and chemicals in the ephemeral habitat of a storm cloud. A Danish research team at Aarhus University analyzed hailstones recovered after a storm in May 2009 and found that they carried several species of bacteria typically found on plants as well as nearly 3,000 different compounds commonly found in soil. The hailstones had...
University of Arizona Plants can adapt their demand for water depending on how much is available - However, this resilience has a limit, and prolonged drought conditions threaten the survival of plant communities, especially in more arid areas Scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, and their partners have determined that water demand by many plant communities can fluctuate in response to water availability, indicating a capacity for resilience even when changing...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Climate change could cause soil to grow warmer and release additional carbon dioxide into the air, enhancing the effects of global warming, a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has discovered. The study, which was completed by scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH), the University of California-Davis (UC Davis), and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), provides new insight into how...
ROBESONIA, Pa., Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SUMMARYCover Crop Solutions' cover crop radish helps boost bottom line for farmers while building soil health. Tillage Radish® - a seed variety (Plant Variety Protection pending) draws farmers' attention to the issue of soil health while offering viable solutions Product is result of over 12 years of selective plant breeding for use as a cover crop Tillage Radish® provides certain benefits Grows through compacted soil layers to...
DALLAS, January 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The report "Global Soil Treatment Market by Types (Organic Amendments, Pest & Weed Control, pH Adjusters) and Geography: Trends & Forecasts to 2017" defines and segments the global soil treatment market with analysis and forecasting of the global revenue. It also identifies the driving and restraining factors for the global market with analysis of trends, opportunities, burning issues, winning imperatives, and challenges. The...
Rayshell Clapper for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to Southern Methodist University paleontologists Timothy S. Myers, Louis L. Jacobs, and SMU sedimentary geologist Neil J. Tabor, the modern relationship between animals and vegetation is similar to millions of years ago. In their study, the SMU scientists used fossil soils from the Late Jurassic age gathered from locations where animal fossils were previously found to determine the levels of carbon isotopes. The team...
Exploring advancements in soil-tissue testing and analysis. Fairbury, IL (PRWEB) January 05, 2013 United Soils, Inc. announced today that they will be featured on an upcoming episode of American Farmer, produced by DMG Productions. For over 20 years, United Soils, Inc. has been a high-quality, dependable service provider of soil-plant tissue field services / testing & analysis. United Soils, Inc. recently launched i-F.A.R.M., a new web-based precision ag software, including a mobile...
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Desertification is a form of land degradation in which a comparatively dry land area becomes more and more arid, normally losing its bodies of water along with its wildlife and vegetation. This is a result of a variety of factors, such as climate change and human activities. Desertification is an important global, ecological, and environmental issue. There is substantial controversy over the proper definition of the term “desertification”. The most broadly accepted of these is that of...
Land degradation is a process in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by one or more combination of human-induced processes acting on the land. It is also the gradual destruction or reduction of the quality and quantity of human activities, animal activities or natural means. It is viewed as any change or disturbance to the land perceived to be deleterious or unwanted. Natural hazards are not included in the causes; however, human activities can indirectly affect...
Erosion is the process by which rock and soil are taken from the surface of the Earth by exogenetic processes like wind or the flow of water, and then transported and deposited in another location. While erosion is a natural process, human activities have increased by 10 to 40 times the rate at which erosion is happening globally. Excessive erosion results in problems such as desertification, decreases in agricultural productivity because of land degradation, sedimentation of waterways,...
Soil salinity is the salt content within the soil; the process of increasing the content of salt is known as salination. Salt is a natural element of water and soils. Salination can be a result of natural processes such as the gradual withdrawal of an ocean or mineral weathering. It can be caused by artificial processes such as irrigation as well. Soils that are affected by salt are a result of excess accumulation of salts, normally most obvious at the surface of the soil. Salts can be...
Vermicompost is composting with the use of special earthworms. Red wigglers and white worms are the more common worms used, although European night crawlers can be used as well. Red wigglers can be found living in manure piles and in rotting vegetation and adapt the best in covered worm bins. Common earthworms burrow deeply and are not recommended for use in compost bins. Blue worms are commonly used in the tropics. Worms are used to decompose vegetable and food waste along with bedding...
