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“Efficient” irrigation tool may deplete more water
An Israeli water engineer was sitting under a tree one day when he noticed a leaking faucet slowly drip water to the tree`s roots, a nearly 50-year-old irrigation tale says. The idea inspired the invention of modern drip irrigation, also known as micro-irrigation. The method runs water through plastic tubes that release the flow through small holes directly to crop roots or stems.
The precise application allows drip-irrigated crops to be watered more frequently than with traditional sprinkler methods. Yet farmers waste fewer resources because most water is absorbed through transpiration. ... |
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Global warming changing organic matter in soil
New research shows that we should be looking to the ground, not the sky, to see where climate change could have its most perilous impact on life on Earth. Scientists at the University of Toronto Scarborough have published research findings in the prestigious journal, Nature Geoscience, that show global warming actually changes the molecular structure of organic matter in soil.
`Soil contains more than twice the amount of carbon than does the atmosphere, yet, until now, scientists haven`t examined this significant carbon pool closely,` said Professor Myrna Simpson of environmental chemistry ... |
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- Testing ecological toxicity in rivers
Water quality in rivers is commonly classified according to its physical and chemical properties, but this may not fully describe its biological health. ...
- Frontier forest science for carbon solutions
Under the agreement, a software model referred to as CABALA, which can be used to model forest growth over time, has been licensed to CO2 Australia to ...
- EPA awards wetland program development grants across the country
The US Environmental Protection Agency has awarded six grants, totaling $1,174,834, for wetland protection and management projects in Region 7.
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- Putting a green cap on garbage dumps
Landfill sites produce the greenhouse gases, methane and carbon dioxide, as putrescible waste decays. Growing plants and trees on top of a landfill, a ...
- Canada`s green jobs, a reality on the ground
Mike Johnson is an outdoors kind of guy who used to have an indoors kind of job. About two years ago, the lure of energy conservation got the better of ...
- Indigenous values guide northern Australian waters research
“Indigenous people in the north have a large stake in water resource planning and management based on their distinct cultures, ways of life and substantial ...
- MediTerra accredited for conducting soil and groundwater investigation and remediation
MediTerra has been accredited by regional authorities in Spain for conducting soil and groundwater investigations, risk assessments and remediation according ...
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