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Beavers help reduce water pollution and soil erosion - Earth.com
May 10, 2018 ... Scientists at the University of Exeter are reporting that beavers can dramatically improve the quality of water in rivers while preventing ...
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Soil bacteria can help farmers control crop diseases - Earth.com
Jan 24, 2022 ... The John Innes Centre team extracted and analyzed hundreds of Pseudomonas bacteria strains collected from the soil in a commercial potato field ...
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Sequestering carbon in soil is dependent upon microbes - Earth.com
Jun 6, 2023 ... Scientists have discovered that the microscopic lifeforms known as microbes significantly influence the amount of carbon stored in the soil.
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Trees are moving to soils that lack the fungi to support them - Earth ...
May 28, 2024 ... Trees and soil fungi in a warming world. Most plants, including large coniferous trees in northern latitudes, rely on symbiotic relationships ...
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Lunar soil could be the basis of moon life-support system - Earth.com
May 5, 2022 ... They find that the lunar soil, or components extracted from it, have the potential to be used as photocatalysts for splitting water molecules.
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Soil is a source of food contamination - Earth.com
Feb 3, 2021 ... Soil is a source of food contamination ... A new study from the American Society of Agronomy has investigated sources of food contamination in the ...
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Hidden pool of global soil carbon alters climate change models ...
Apr 14, 2024 ... SIC serves as a significant carbon reservoir. Its stability or disturbance impacts carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, thus playing a role ...
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The use of antibiotics on animals is contaminating soil - Earth.com
Nov 21, 2017 ... Researchers have determined that the overuse of antibiotics is directly contributing to increased antibiotic resistance in soil.
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Global hotspots for soil conservation are poorly protected - Earth.com
Oct 13, 2022 ... However, since soils are vulnerable to climate and land-use change, to better conserve soil ecological values we need to know where their ...
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Common soil fungus protects corn crops from pests and boosts ...
Apr 23, 2020 ... A common soil fungus has the potential to protect corn from pests while helping the plants grow and develop.
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