Soils Sustain Life -- Soil Science Society of America
Soils sustain life on earth. Soils play a critical role in food production, environmental, and water management issues. This video features ...
Soil Science Institute at KSU June 2011
The National Soil Survey Center sponsored the Soil Science Institute at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, June 6-24, 2011. The ...
Book Review: The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do To ...
Yet he's not entirely blind to politics, noting "under climate change, Canada, Russia and Siberia will emerge as the world's grain superpowers by the end of the present century. Scientists have calculated that by 2080 Russia/Siberia could gain an extra 40-70 percent of new farming land, while North America ya gain 20-50 percent. Such increases would in theory go a long way towards counterbalancing heavy losses in food production in the tropics and subtropics - but unless the food produced iin the North is somehow transported and affordably distributed in the deficit regions, the risk of large-scale local famines triggered by climate impacts will be acute. In all of history to date, the existence of vast food surplus in the North has failed to prevent starvation in the South". (And he rather doubts that the 1.3 billion people who now depend on the great rivers of the Indian subcontinent, in large part fed by Himalayan glaciers, will be given the chance to resettled in water-rich regions.
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Arvidson to be participating scientist on Curiosity, the new Mars rover
The operational purpose is to help Curiosity chart the best path across the Martian terrain, avoiding sand traps and slippery slopes, and the scientific purpose is to study crusted soils. Crusted soils are of interest both because rovers can break ...
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Book Review: The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do To ... ORG Back in 2006, it was in part concern about world food supplies - and particularly the condition of the soils and water that produce them - that led me to join the Green Party. I did an agricultural science degree, a long time ago, ... |
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Effects of Possible Warming-Induced Increases in Freeze-Thaw Cycles on Soil ... After analyzing the results of the many aspects of their investigation, the six scientists were forced to conclude that the number of freeze-thaw events had no effect on the microbial variables they studied, specifically noting that they "did not find ... |
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Science Potpourri for the Holidays A research team working in Dr. Win Watson's laboratory at the University of New Hampshire conducted a series of experiments to study lobster noise-making habits. They held lobsters in separate tanks—either alone, with other lobsters, or with fish, ... |
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Organic Polymer Protects Scorched Soil from Erosion The research was presented at the Israel Society of Ecology & Environmental Sciences Annual Conference in 2010 and at a COST–European Cooperation in Science and Technology Conference in 2009. Following a wildfire, soil often erodes because vegetation ... |
