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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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “soil”

• Chelsea have look of champions as Wolves crushed

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 158
  Chelsea tightened their grip at the top of the Premier League with a 4-0 thrashing of beleaguered Wolves on Saturday. The west Londoners produced a display of consummate authority at a soggy Stamford Bridge, capped by goals from Florent Malouda, two from Michael Essien and a welcome fourth from Joe Cole, his first ...
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• i need grass

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 159
  hello to all.hope i get some responses wit different oinions. i live in mobile al/last year i laid down 4 pallets of cut bermuda grass.none of it has grown at all.my yard consist of sand and red dirt,very little brown dirt.the side of my driveway is washing away for there’s no grass there.??? is can [...]
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• Huge crowds greet Olympic torch in P.E.I.

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  The Olympic torch hit P.E.I.s famous red soil Saturday afternoon, where it was greeted by large crowds of people, many of them sporting red attire.
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• Bringing a Container Garden Inside

  
  Handy Man Fix Home Repair — Authority: 478
  If you have a container garden that you’ve been carefully tending all summer long, it’s time to start thinking about what you plan to do with it for the rest of the year. Depending on the types of plants you have, you may be able to enjoy them all year round, simply by bringing your container garden inside. It’s ...
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• Water soaking through loose soil : Spotting Evidence of Directed Percolation (Science Daily / Am. Phys. Soc.)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at : Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117124013.htmSpotting Evidence of Directed PercolationScienceDaily (Nov. 20, 2009) — A team of physicists has, for the first time, seen convincing experimental evidence for directed percolation, a phenomenon that turns up in computer models of ...
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• The Benefits of Stress … in Plants (Science Daily / Am. J. Bot.))

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at : Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091119101209.htmThe Benefits of Stress … in PlantsScienceDaily (Nov. 19, 2009) — Chronic stress in humans has been implicated in heart disease, weight gain, and diabetes, among a host of other health problems. Extreme environments, a source of ...
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• Sustainable Farming May Help Maintain Healthy Climate (Science Daily / DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at : Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091119193816.htmSustainable Farming May Help Maintain Healthy ClimateScienceDaily (Nov. 20, 2009) — Sustainable farming, initially adopted to preserve soil quality for future generations, may also play a role in maintaining a healthy climate, ...
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• Rand Paul: Try, Convict and Lock Up Terrorists In Guantanamo

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  For Immediate Release November 19, 2009 BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY – Leading United States Senate candidate Rand Paul today criticized the Obama administration’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and try terrorism suspects in United States Civil Courts. “Foreign terrorists do not ...
  19 hours ago

• New method to measure snow, soil moisture with GPS may benefit climate modelers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, November 21 (ANI): A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and ...
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• Comets may have delivered water on Moon

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  London, November 21 (ANI): Evidence from NASA’s LCROSS mission has suggested that water found in the lunar impact recently was delivered by comets rather than forming on the surface through an interaction with the solar wind.In October, the mission crashed two impactors - a spent rocket stage and a few minutes ...
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• Tips For Garden Thatch Control Recipe

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 159
  I saw the article on Thatch Control on this site searching the web looking for a way to avoid raking thatch. The Thatch Control receipe looked like I had found an inexpensive answer to the problem. However, the solution is too thick and not being drawn up the tube properly. It could be the hose-end [...]
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• Gambhir, Tendulkar help India take slim lead (Tea Report)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Ahmedabad, Nov 20 (IANS) Gritty knocks from Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar on the fifth and the final day took India to the threshold of a draw in the first cricket Test and spoil Sri Lanka’s hope of their maiden win on Indian soil here Friday.Gambhir’s fine 114 and an unbeaten half-century from Tendulkar ...
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• Gambhir century raises India’s hope of saving first Test (Lunch Report)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Ahmedabad, Nov 20 (IANS) Opener Gautam Gambhir’s fine century on the fifth day raised India’s hope of saving the first cricket Test and prevent Sri Lanka from winning their first Test on Indian soil here Friday.At lunch, India were 256 for three in the second innings with Gambhir batting on 105 and Sachin ...
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• Ciggies “widely contaminated” with pathogenic bacteria

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, November 20 (ANI): An international study has found cigarettes are “widely contaminated” with bacteria, including some which can cause diseases.A University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France conducted the research.The study ...
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• African superstars await Nations Cup fate

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 158
  African superstars Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto’o and Michael Essien will discover Friday who they face at the 2010 African Nations Cup in Angola. A draw ceremony in the capital of the oil-rich south-west Africa state divides the 16 qualifiers into four groups from which the winners and runners-up advance to the ...
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• Are Herbs Weeds or Treasures?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 510
  Many herbs have been introduced into Australia and because they are not native plants, they have often few competitors for resources such as water, soil nutrients and light and have few predators. Subsequently, these plants can grow and spread unchecked, endangering native vegetation and even various animal species ...
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• Global Warming Is Stealing Vital Nitrogen From Desert Plants

  
  The Sietch Blog — Authority: 422
  In the Mojave Desert winds howl across this hottest place in North America, blowing sands across Death Valley and through empty ghost towns, swirling across treeless land for hundreds of miles. But even in the otherworldly Mojave, life thrives. The Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia), an indicator species for this desert, ...
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• SMOS satellite instrument comes alive

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 610
  The MIRAS instrument on ESA’s SMOS satellite, launched earlier this month, has been switched on and is operating normally. MIRAS will map soil moisture and ocean salinity to improve our understanding of the role these two key variables play in regulating Earth’s water cycle.“Following the switch-on, MIRAS is ...
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• Self-Powered Diaper Monitor System Automatically Detects Wet Diapers

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 522
  A research laboratory at Japan’s Ritsumeikan University has developed a monitoring system for wet diapers that consists of a self-powered sensor/transmitter and a receiver and is supposed to assist staff in hospitals and nursing homes in performing diaper checks with elderly patients. The sensor kit has to be placed ...
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• India fighting to save first Test against Sri Lanka (Roundup)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Ahmedabad, Nov 19 (IANS) India are fighting hard to prevent Sri Lanka from winning their first Test on Indian soil by giving themselves a fair chance of batting out the fifth and last day for the first cricket Test here Friday.On the penultimate day Thursday, at Motera’s Sardar Patel Stadium, Sri Lanka reached an ...
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