Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across sixty mile stretch of rivers
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A landslide of contaminated soil threatens environmental disaster in Denmark. Who pays to stop it?
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Silent Spring (Rachel Carson, 1962)
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Study says cover crops and no-till aren't just good for soil — they also make farmers more money
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Ancient Amazonians created mysterious ‘dark earth’ on purpose
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Do droughts make floods worse?
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Artificial intelligence and internet of things for sustainable farming and smart agriculture
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When Greenland was green: Ancient soil from beneath a mile of ice offers warnings for the future
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The environmental disaster lurking beneath your neighborhood gas station
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How would I determine which plants fix which nutrients into soil? Any resources?
I'm very on board with the concept of permaculture, and while I understand the concepts I don't have a good intuition for which plants fix which nutrients. For example suppose I grow basil in my...
I'm very on board with the concept of permaculture, and while I understand the concepts I don't have a good intuition for which plants fix which nutrients. For example suppose I grow basil in my herb garden.
How do I figure out which nutrients it will eventually deplete? How do I figure out a good buddy crop(s) to replenish those nutrients?
Any permaculturists out there that can point me in the right direction?
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Rock flour produced by the grinding under Greenland's glaciers can trap climate-heating carbon dioxide when spread on farm fields
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Why some roadways are made of styrofoam
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The world depends on this government warehouse's collection of strange Standard Reference Materials. They're not cheap.
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How a volcanic eruption and a mysterious phenomenon known as a mast year were perfectly timed together to create a new forest in Iceland
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Putting the Icelandic Lupin debate under the microscope to try and find out the good and the bad about this invasive species
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A centuries-old concept in soil science has recently been thrown out. Yet it remains a key ingredient in everything from climate models to advanced carbon-capture projects.
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The nation’s first regenerative dairy works with nature to heal the soil—at scale
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Common Ground, Part I: How organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies
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We can’t talk about regenerative ag without talking about pesticides
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Carbon markets stand to reward ‘no-till’ farmers. But most are still tilling the soil.
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Proof by underpants
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‘A poor man’s rainforest’: Why we need to stop treating soil like dirt
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The newly legal process for turning human corpses to soil
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Spreading rock dust on the ground could pull carbon from the air, researchers say
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'Earthworm dilemma' has climate scientists racing to keep up
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