Ethanol production degrading soil productivity
Crop residues are viewed as a low cost and readily available source of material for ethanol production. But these residues…
Study Slams Mainstream Farming Techniques
Long-established plow-based agricultural methods combined with the economic imperative to improve crop yields are rapidly depleting the Earth’s soil supply,…
Bacteria Used To Reinforce Buildings
Natural soil bacteria could be used to stabilize buildings against earthquakes, turning loose sand around the building’s foundations into sandstone,…
Increasing Soil Erosion Threatens World’s Food Supply
An ecologist from Cornell University reports that soil from the world’s croplands is being swept and washed away 10 –…
Amazon A Desert For Soil Bacteria
The diversity of soil bacteria in the otherwise species-rich Amazon is more like a desert, while paradoxically, the arid desert…
Arctic Soil Carbon Vastly Underestimated
It seems that current efforts to understand the effects of carbon on climate warming could be a waste of time…