soil

There is great concern about the current condition of the world's soils, on which the human race depends for most of its food, to filter its water, and to support its very foundations.

Soil is often thought of as an inert collection of degraded rock, which does indeed form its framework, but organisms within the soil are vital to its health as they decompose organic matter, cycle nutrients, and enhance structure.

Many bloggers writing about soil are likely to be gardeners, often writing about soil types, about the use of compost to improve soils, or dealing with soil problems.

There's also been a lot of excitement about exploration of the soil on Mars.

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  Organic Fruit - New Evidence Shows Not Only Fewer Chemicals, But More Nutrients
  This new, peer-reviewed study provides strong evidence that organically grown fruit is not only lower in harmful chemicals, but is also significantly higher in vitamins and antioxidants.
  by terrasanoblog / on Sep 8, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “soil”

 

• Mars is too dry to support life on its surface

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 166
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk Mars is too dry to support life on its surface Samples of soil found that the surface had been starved of any moisture that might enhance the view that there are living organisms on the red planet. published date:Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:18:08 GMT
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• Lonely Planet England

  
  BackpackingBex.com - Blazin' Trails Around the World — Authority: 124
  It doesnt take long on English soil to realise England is a breeze to get around and a blast to explore. Coffee-table countryside, old-fashioned seaside towns, pulsing cities or galleries packed with the latest buzz-works - your fancies are never far from each other in this compact country.Maximize your trip with this ...
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• The Emergy of Money Ratio of the United States from 1990 to 2007

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 133
  The emergy to money ratio of a system is a key index used in emergy evaluations, because it represents the buying power of money and it can be used as an estimator of the average value of human service. Since both the material and energy inputs to societies and the money circulating in economies are constantly ...
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• How to Prepare a Beneficial Microorganism Mixture

  
  Permaculture Research Institute of Australia — Authority: 116
  Many have heard of EM mixtures, sold worldwide with cultures of effective microorganisms, that due to their symbiotic relationships with each other can benefit the microorganisms’ ecosystem in our soils, compost piles and toilets. They are known to boost yield and speed the composting process and are sold worldwide ...
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• Would You Study the Hudson River for $15K?

  
  ProFellow — Authority: 104
  Once in a while I come across a fellowship that re-confirms this: there’s a fellowship for everything. The Hudson River Foundation is offering up to three full-time graduate research fellowships to advanced graduate students conducting research on the Hudson River system. Fellowships awarded to doctoral students ...
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• The Biochar Miracle

  
  Permaculture Research Institute of Australia — Authority: 116
  Carbon pirates bury black gold… so future generations will be richer. – John RogersBiochar is being promoted as the soil saving miracle of the century promising outrageously high yields of crops as well as removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The first video ‘The Promise of Biochar’ explains what ...
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• Mars too dry for life

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Life could not exist on the surface of Mars because the planet has experienced a 600 million year "super-drought", scientists claim.
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• Mars too dry for life

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Life could not exist on the surface of Mars because the planet has experienced a 600 million year "super-drought", scientists claim.
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• How To Remove Moles At Home

  
  Skin Tag Removal At Home — Authority: 113
  Mole Control Repeated application of this method can rapidly remove eastern moles from an area. Mole control methods that do not seem to work – A) Home remedies such as placing hair, broken glass, mothballs, motor oil, etc. in tunnels … View Document Moles In Lawns This extensive ...
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• Kerala coir products gain market share in Africa, Latin America

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 507
  Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 3 (IANS) Coir, Kerala’s golden fibre, is seeing its international market share, especially in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, growing following a world-wide shift towards eco-friendly products.The popularity of value-added products like coir pith and coco lawn is proving lucrative ...
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• Gregor Tresher – Lights From The Inside (Remixes) [Break New Soil]

  
  NuTesla | The Informant — Authority: 148
  The audio playing is 96kbps artist: Gregor Tresher title: Lights From The Inside (Remixes) tracks: Frontline (Nic Fanciulli Remix), Through The Shadow Glass (Functions Remix), Lights From The Inside (Dosem Remix), Lights From The Inside (Nick Curly Remix), Echelon (Patrick Siech Remix), label: Break New Soil mixes: ...
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• Soil Erosion Landscape Pattern of Loess Hilly Region Based on Fusion Method of ALOS Image

  
  GIS Park — Authority: 118
  Soil erosion is one of global environmental problems, fathering water and soil losses is one of important measures for improving the ecological environment, this have very important signification. Soil erosion in the loess Plateau,is great environmental Problem at Present , and soil erosion monitoring is of great ...
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• Thriller captures Bihar’s wild, feudal days (IANS Books)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 507
  New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) Bihar is a goldmine of drama. A ruthless ‘thakur’, a landowner with vendetta in his blood and an unarmed man with a fortune to his name are chasing a rare diamond — each for different reasons.Bihar has perhaps spun its first homegrown thriller, a Western style potboiler, by [...]
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• Berkshire schools educator named conservation teacher of year

  
  Farm and Dairy - The Auction Guide and Rural Marketplace — Authority: 427
  BURTON, Ohio — The Geauga Soil and Water Conservation District has announced Cheri Goggin, environmental science teacher for Berkshire Junior/Senior High School, has been named the 2011 Ohio Conservation Teacher of the Year in the secondary category. Each year the Ohio Federation of Soil and Water Conservation ...
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• China’s rural problems defy annual solution

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  A farmer cuts firewood from trees in a field near the village of Xishaoqu, located on the outskirts of Beijing January 19, 2012. Credit: Reuters/David Gray BEIJING | Thu Feb 2, 2012 9:30am IST BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese farmer Chen Shusheng’s biggest worry is his son, whose scholarly glasses, pale skin and ...
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• Tiptoe through the tulips

  
  Flower Talk With Lane — Authority: 94
  Day 2 of Valentines Day shipping... If theres one thing I know already about the floral industry, its that I never know what Ill be doing from one day to the next. One day Im riding a bicycle through the iris fields, and the next day Im sleeving bouquets in Oxnard. Yesterday, I found myself dodging tulip carts in ...
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• Summer 1998 @ Supreme Imperial Baltimore MD

  
  Hardcore Show Flyers — Authority: 115
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• Three Bean Chili for the Super Bowl (and Beyond!)

  
  Red, White & Grew — Authority: 108
  If you’re new to this blog–thanks to the whole 2012 Bloggie thing , then let me tell you that we eat a lotta home-cooked beans  here. Not only are they nutritious, but they’re also economical. Win-win. Credit to my husband who figured out that the carrots, once added to this bean chili, would add a ...
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• The Resilient Gardener, A Book Review

  
  Cooking Up A Story: A Show about People, Food, and Sustainable Living — Authority: 97
  The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times Carol Deppe ISBN 978-1-60358-031-1 Chelsea Green Publishing Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener I confess I’m pretty much a good-time gardener. I grow things that are pretty (love unusual limbs and bark) and I’m hardly ever ...
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• Plastic Eating Fungus Discovery

  
  The Soil Remediation Blog — Authority: 94
  The future for waste management? (@frankenstoen) Our friends in the USA have managed to isolate a Fungus which degrades polyurethane, a substance which is used in foams, seals, adhesives and hard and flexible plastic parts.  The fungus has been named Pestalotiopsis microspora, a name which may become as well known ...
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