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Biosolids Can Boost Soil Phosphorus Levels for Years
January 23, 2013 — Treated wastewater solids called biosolids are sometimes used by farmers to boost soil nutrient levels. Now research provides new information about how long those plant nutrients remain after ... > full story -
Cotton With Special Coating Collects Water from Fogs in Desert
January 21, 2013 — Researchers have developed a special treatment for cotton fabric that allows the cotton to absorb exceptional amounts of water from misty air: 340% of its own weight. What makes this 'coated cotton' ... > full story -
Warmer Soils Release Additional CO2 Into Atmosphere; Effect Stabilizes Over Longer Term
January 20, 2013 — Warmer temperatures due to climate change could cause soils to release additional carbon into the atmosphere, thereby enhancing climate change – but that effect diminishes over the long term, ... > full story -
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Marginal Lands Are Prime Fuel Source for Alternative Energy
January 16, 2013 — Marginal lands -- those unsuited for food crops -- can serve as prime real estate for meeting the U.S. alternative energy production goals. Marginal lands represent a huge untapped resource to ... > full story -
First Way to Make Large Amounts of Promising Anti-Cancer Substance
January 16, 2013 — Scientists are reporting development of the first practical way to make large amounts of a promising new anti-cancer substance that kills cancer cells differently than existing medicines. A new ... > full story -
Lower Nitrogen Losses With Perennial Biofuel Crops
January 10, 2013 — Perennial biofuel crops such as miscanthus, whose high yields have led them to be considered an eventual alternative to corn in producing ethanol, are now shown to have another beneficial ... > full story -
Cheating Slime Mold Gets the Upper Hand
January 8, 2013 — A ‘cheater’ mutation (chtB) in Dictyostelium discoideum, a free living slime mould able to co-operate as social organism when food is scarce, allows the cheater strain to exploit ... > full story -
Jurassic Ecosystems Were Similar to Modern: Animals Flourish Among Lush Plants
January 8, 2013 — In modern ecosystems, animals flourish amid lush vegetation. That was true 150 million years ago too, says a new study by paleontologists. They applied ecological principles to geochemical data from ... > full story -
New Way to Study Permafrost Soil, Above and Below Ground
January 4, 2013 — Scientists have developed a new way to explore the little-known world of permafrost soils, which store almost as much carbon as the rest of the world's soils and about twice as much as is in the ... > full story -
Biologists Unlock 'Black Box' to Underground World: How Tiny Microbes Make Life Easier for Humans
January 3, 2013 — Biologists have unlocked the "black box" to the underground world home to billions of microscopic creatures. That first peek inside may well explain how the number of species in an ecosystem changes ... > full story
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