Human composting offers an environmentally friendly alternative to burial and cremation. Here's how it works.
Tom Harries, CEO and founder of Earth Funeral, explains the process of being turned into soil in about 30 days — and how your ...
'The nastiest soils on Earth' are getting recognized as a bigger problem
Acid sulfate soils are characterized by their orange hue and their tendency to kill surrounding vegetation and fish. Anders ...
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Living microbes discovered in Earth’s driest desert
A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.
Soils 'Are Naked, Hungry and Have a Fever,' Says Farmer
With 60 harvests left to save the Earth's soils, an environmental advocate and a farmer share their thoughts on what must change.
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Why soil matters (and what we can do to save it)
A worm burrows its way through the dark earth, ingesting particles of soil and expelling nutrient-rich casts in a constant forage for food. Charles Darwin described earthworms as one of the most ...
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Why soil is disappearing from farms
When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...
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Soil Carbon Storage
Vertical distribution of roots along a soil toposequence in the New Jersey pinelands ... Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 35, 313-347 (2007). [IPCC] Intergovernmental Panel on ...
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Study finds asymmetric warming impacts soil carbon storage more than symmetric warming
Prior research has shown that the Earth is undergoing asymmetric global warming—more warming is experienced during winters than in summers. In this new effort ... tested the soil to see the ...