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Organic Apple Orchard Floor Maintenance: Mulching, Flaming And 'Swiss Sandwich' Techniques Analyzed
September 4, 2009 — Organic apple farming starts from the ground up. Maintaining a healthy orchard floor is the key to preventing weeds and keeping soil healthy. Researchers compared three methods of orchard floor ... > full story -
Indoor Plants Found To Release Volatile Organic Compounds
September 3, 2009 — Potted plants add aesthetic value to homes and offices, and have been shown to remove volatile organic compounds (VOCs) gases or vapors emitted by solids and liquids that may have adverse health ... > full story -
Golf Course Putting Greens Show Their Age: Researchers Seek To Maintain Healthy Greens, Reduce Construction Costs
September 3, 2009 — Just like the rest of us, golf courses show their age -- especially on putting greens, which experience more foot traffic than anywhere else on golf courses. Putting greens, which comprise 1.6 ... > full story -
Orchids And Fungi -- Partners For Life
August 13, 2009 — Three Thai orchids have been found to rely on a wide range of fungi to help them take carbon out of the soil instead of producing their own organic ... > full story -
Sustainable Agriculture: Perennial Plants Produce More; Landscape Diversity Creates Habitat For Pest Enemies
August 4, 2009 — Advances in ecology increasingly reveal that conventional agricultural practices have detrimental effects on the landscape ecology, creating problems for long-term sustainability of crops. Ecologists ... > full story -
Waste From Textile Industry Transformed Into Rich Compost With Help Of Manure And Earthworms
July 16, 2009 — Waste from the textiles industry could with the assistance of earthworms and some animal manure become a rich compost for agriculture, according to a report in the International Journal of ... > full story -
Facile Synthesis Of Nanoparticles With Multiple Functions
July 13, 2009 — Scientists have discovered a new environmentally friendly method to synthesize a wide variety of nanoparticles inexpensively. Metals that dissolve in water were successfully extracted and transferred ... > full story -
Plant-Driven Fungal Weathering: Early Stages Of Mineral Alteration At The Nanometer Scale
June 30, 2009 — For the first time, the boundary between fungi and rock has been imaged on a nanoscale -- unraveling the fundamental processes by which fungi break down rocks into soil whilst extracting essential ... > full story -
Little-Known Marine Decomposers Attract The Attention Of Genome Sequencers
June 29, 2009 — Scientists will sequence the genomes of four species of labyrinthulomycetes. These little-known marine species were selected for sequencing as the result of a proposal submitted to the competitive ... > full story -
Study Of Agricultural Watersheds And Carbon Losses
June 19, 2009 — Scientists have investigated the impacts of manure application, crop rotation, and the rate of nitrogen application on carbon losses in several agricultural watersheds over a six-year ... > full story
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