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5 simple steps for soil-friendly eating

If we don't take care of the soil, the soil will lose its ability to take care of us.




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Solar farms can enhance biodiversity and sequester soil carbon too

New research, backed by conservation groups in the UK, suggest solar farms may offer opportunities for a more biodiverse countryside.




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15 DAYS TO GO! Germany deadly on home soil

Germany netted 15 goals at the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2005, the biggest haul by a host nation at the Tournament of Champions. Die Mannschaft would go on to record a third-place finish that year, defeating Mexico 4-3 (AET) in the semi-finals.

 

 





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EurekAlert.org: Interdisciplinary approach the only way to address devastating effects of soil erosion

Soil erosion can have a devastating impact on traditional farming landscapes in developing countries. But its effects can only be fully addressed through significant advances in interdisciplinary scientific and societal approaches, according to new research.




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Lamar Odom reps his new label Rich Soil at Kids' Choice Awards

The 38-year-old former NBA star said he was 'really happy' for the 33-year-old reality star, who's expecting a daughter with Cleveland Cavaliers centre Tristan Thompson




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Rory McIlroy relishing challenge of being on home soil for last major tilt this year

Rory McIlroy says victory at next month's Open Championship would be the 'most special' of his career.




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Rory McIlroy admits it would 'mean the world' to achieve Open Championship success on home soil

Rory McIlroy admits it would 'mean the world' to win an Open Championship on home soil after completing the ASI Scottish Open with an error-strewn final round.




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Selena Gomez reveals she 'soiled herself' on her way to an Ed Sheeran gig

Selena Gomez made a rather surprising admission while on KISS FM's breakfast show on Tuesday. 




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Anti-social mess including vomit, urine and blood soils nearly 15,000 London buses in just a year

Buses in London were strewn with anti-social mess including vomit, urine and blood thousands of times last year. Several bus routes had vehicles soiled on average more than twice per week.




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Spanish Super Cup is now even more unpopular than it was on home soil

PETE JENSON: The Spanish Super Cup was always the least important trophy in Spain's football calendar. Making it four teams and taking it to Saudi Arabia has only lessened its appeal.




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Has Britain let Putin get away with a string of murders on our soil?

Sergei Skripal had been warned. He had been a double agent, and in 2010, when the Russians released him from jail in a spy-swap, Putin made his intentions clear: 'Traitors will kick the bucket.'




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ADAM GEMILI: It’s going to be weird competing at an Olympics on foreign soil but I’m sure the support will be amazing

I can’t wait for Rio 2016! It’s come around so quickly – it feels like London 2012 was last week. But hopefully I’ll be in good shape next year, make that team and do everyone proud.




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Can Brazil cope at the Copa America on home soil without Neymar?

Albeit against weaker opposition on Sunday, the Selecao romped to a 7-0 win over Honduras in the southern city of Porto Alegre and have thus far shown no signs of struggle in Neymar's absence.




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There's a lily to suit almost any soil or colour scheme, says Monty Don

British gardening expert Monty Don shares his advice for how to grow lilies in your garden. He recommends growing the plants in pots and giving them 'plenty of space'.




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Drunken passenger who wet and soiled himself after downing vodka and rum is jailed for eight months

James Petford, 39, of Kings Norton, Birmingham, urinated and vomited in his seat after downing vodka and rum on a flight from Birmingham to Egypt. He has been jailed for eight months.




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Top to bottom, water and soil


Harvesting water in the lower elevations is easier, because a lot of it gathers there, but this may be too late and too little. Not only do those in higher reaches suffer without water, additionally valuable topsoil is washed away if no percolation takes place at higher levels. Surekha Sule reports from Marathwada.




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Asia Gasoil Margins Drop to Record Low Amid Signs of Indian Export Surge

India's April gasoil exports closed at a four-month high of 2.73 million tonnes, compared with 2.53 million tonnes in March, according to Refinitiv oil research assessments.




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Soil Nail Structure

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Disruptive tourism and its untidy guests : alternative ontologies for future hospitalities / Soile Veijola, Jennie Germann Molz, Olli Pyyhtinen, Emily Höckert and Alexander Grit

Veijola, Soile, author




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Juris materiarum : empires of earth, soil and dirt / by Bronwyn Lay

Lay, Bronwyn, author




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CPRI develops tech to grow seed potatoes without soil

Aeroponics reportedly ensures five to six times more production of potato minitubers as compared to traditional tissue culture system; the institute has started a commercial unit in Modipuram, UP.




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Spatial Techniques for Soil Erosion Estimation: Remote Sensing and GIS Approach / by Rupesh Jayaram Patil

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Use of optical properties for evaluating the presence of pyrogenic organic matter in thermally altered soil leachates

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2020, 22,981-992
DOI: 10.1039/C9EM00413K, Paper
Garrett McKay, Amanda K. Hohner, Fernando L. Rosario-Ortiz
Optical measurements reveal the presence of pyrogenic organic matter in laboratory heated soil leachates, indicating their potential for application in field measurements.
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Acetotrophic methanogens are sensitive to long-term nickel contamination in paddy soil

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2020, 22,1014-1025
DOI: 10.1039/D0EM00029A, Paper
Chen Xueping, Yu Juan, Chen Zheng, Zhang Hongmei, Cheng Wangda, Bai Fayan, Zheng Yu, Khan Imran Ahamed, He Chiquan, Liu Xiaoyan
Paddy soil accounts for approximately one-fifth of the world's cultivated area and faces a serious threat from nickel (Ni).
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Quantitative measures of myo-IP6 in soil using solution 31P NMR spectroscopy and spectral deconvolution fitting including a broad signal

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2020, 22,1084-1094
DOI: 10.1039/C9EM00485H, Paper
Open Access
Jolanda E. Reusser, René Verel, Emmanuel Frossard, Timothy I. McLaren
Inositol phosphates, particularly myo-inositol hexakisphosphate (myo-IP6), are an important pool of soil organic phosphorus (P) in terrestrial ecosystems.
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Influence of the application of Fe–Mn–La ternary oxide-biochar composites on the properties of arsenic-polluted paddy soil

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2020, 22,1045-1056
DOI: 10.1039/C9EM00570F, Paper
Lina Lin, Minling Gao, Xuewei Liu, Zhengguo Song
The effects of Fe–Mn–La ternary oxide-biochar composites on arsenic fractionation, soil enzyme activities, and microbial communities in arsenic-polluted soils were determined.
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Distribution and leaching behavior of organophosphorus and brominated flame retardants in soil in Chengdu

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EM00106F, Paper
Ruoying Liao, Jingyan Jiang, Yiwen Li, Zhiwei Gan, Shijun Su, Sanglan Ding, Zhi Li, Lin Hou
29 surface farmland soil samples were collected to investigate the spatial distribution and composition characteristics of 13 organophosphorus flame retardants, 11 polybrominated diphenyl esters and 8 novel brominated flame retardants.
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Journal of Water & Soil Science [electronic journal].

Isfahan University of Technology, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering




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Conservation agriculture : its effects on crop and soil in rice-based cropping systems in Bangladesh / by Md. Ariful Islam

Islam, Md. Ariful, author




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Podcast: Killing off stowaways to Mars, chasing synthetic opiates, and how soil contributes to global carbon calculations

This week, how to avoid contaminating Mars with microbial hitchhikers, turning mammalian cells into biocomputers, and a look at how underground labs in China are creating synthetic opioids for street sales in the United States with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Caitlin Hicks Pries joins Julia Rosen to discuss her study of the response of soil carbon to a warming world. And for this month’s book segment, Jen Golbeck talks to Rob Dunn about his book Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Effective methods for the determination of triphenyltin residues in surface water and soil samples by high-performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry

Anal. Methods, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0AY00329H, Paper
Gabriel C. dos Santos, Állisson A. da S. Avellar, Rômulo de O. Schwaickhardt, Nelson M. G. Bandeira, Filipe F. Donato, Osmar D. Prestes, Renato Zanella
Monitoring of triphenyltin (TPhT) in the environment, particularly to control its misuse in agriculture, is of great importance because of its high toxicity.
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Unsaturated soils: proceedings of the 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Newcastle, Australia, 23- 25 November 2009 / editors, O. Buzzi, S. Fityus & D. Sheng

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Xray CT for geomaterials: soils, concrete, rocks International Workshop on Xray CT for Geomaterials, Kumamoto, Japan / edited by Jun Otani, Yuzo Obara

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Relationship between erodibility and properties of soils / J.-L. Briaud, I. Shafii, H.-C. Chen, Z. Medina-Cetina

Barker Library - TE7.N275 no.915




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Frost action in soils: fundamentals and mitigation in a changing climate / prepared by the Frozen Ground Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of the Cold Regions Engineering Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; ed

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Microbes and Enzymes in Soil Health and Bioremediation Ashok Kumar, Swati Sharma, editors

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The soils of India Bipin B. Mishra, editors

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Fire effects on soil properties / editors, Paulo Pereira, Jorge Mataix-Solera, Xavier Úbeda, Guillermo Rein and Artemi Cerdà

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Mixed plantations of eucalyptus and leguminous trees: soil, microbiology and ecosystem services / Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira Cardoso, José Leonardo de Moraes Gonçalves, Fabiano de Carvalho Balieiro, Avílio Antônio Franco, editors

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Evaluating emergence, survival, and assembly of banksia woodland communities to achieve restoration objectives following topsoil transfer [electronic resource] / by Pawel Waryszak

Waryszak, Pawel, author




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Soil pollution : a hidden reality / authors, Natalie Rodríguez Eugenio (FAO), Michael McLaughlin (University of Adelaide), Daniel Pennock (University of Saskatchewan (ITPS Member)) ; reviewers, Gary M. Pierzynski (Kansas State University (ITPS Member

Rodríguez Eugenio, Natalie, author




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Fundamentals of site remediation : for metal and hydrocarbon-contaminated soils / John Pichtel

Pichtel, John, 1957- author




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Direct transfer of soil in the wet season as a method to establish resprouter species in rehabilitated bauxite mines / M.A. Norman, J.M. Koch

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Soil and water contamination / Marcel van der Perk

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Research on the controllable degradation of N-methylamido and dialkylamino substituted at the 5th position of the benzene ring in chlorsulfuron in acidic soil

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17870-17880
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA00811G, Paper
Open Access
Fan-Fei Meng, Lei Wu, Yu-Cheng Gu, Sha Zhou, Yong-Hong Li, Ming-Gui Chen, Shaa Zhou, Yang-Yang Zhao, Yi Ma, Zheng-Ming Li
These results will provide valuable information to discover tailored SU with controllable degradation properties to meet the needs of individual crops.
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Soil smell is bacterial lure

Bacteria use the earthy-smelling compound geosmin to recruit the bugs that spread their spores




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Plant roots : growth, activity, and interaction with soils / Peter J. Gregory

Gregory, P. J




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DNA methods for the detection of Phytophthora cinnamomi from soil / by Nari Anderson

Anderson, Nari




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Handbook of soil fungi / A. Nagamani, I.K. Kunwar, C. Manoharachary

Nagamani, A