Rehabilitation of tertiary irrigation networks in Lori, Gegarkunik, and Shirak Marzes
- 1:11 AM — Feb 9 —
- Source: The World Bank Group
The objectives of the Additional Financing for Irrigation Rehabilitation Emergency Project for Armenia are: i) to improve water use efficiency in two selected irrigation schemes; and ii) to foster immediate rural employment. Read More
Huge variation in soil N content
- 7:28 PM — Feb 8 —
- Source: Farmers Guardian - UK
GrowHow arable agronomist Allison Grundy says she is not particularly surprised at the findings. Read More
Variable soil N requires attention
- 6:42 AM — Feb 7 —
- Source: Farmers Weekly Interactive
Soil mineral nitrogen levels are variable this season, according to initial GrowHow N-min sample results. Read More
Modeling Microbes to Manage Carbon Dioxide
- 10:26 AM — Feb 6 —
- Source: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
In the past decade, microbiologists began realizing that communities of microbes process energy and materials, which affects their environments. Read More
Climate change could expose Australians to toxic contamination.
- 10:01 AM — Feb 6 —
- Source: Environmental Health News
"From now on all landfills and contaminated sites will need better flood protection upstream and high-tech contamination barriers downstream to filter the groundwater that leaches out of them, and remove the heavy metals, pesticides, hydrocarbons and organic toxins it contains."Read More
Ask Umbra: Where do chemical-sucking plants go to die?
- 7:25 AM — Feb 6 —
- Source: Gristmill
I've read in the past about different plants being able to "sop up" various nasty chemicals. Read More
Lipscomb University institute looks to animals for inspiration
- 3:11 AM — Feb 6 —
- Source: Tennessean.com - Nashville TN
You can either look at clever things nature does and look for ways to integrate that into what humans need, Farnsworth said, or you can think, Hey, what is a problem that you and your company are having and how would nature do that? or maybe, more importantly, not do that? Read More
Scorpion Armor May Inspire Super-Resistant Materials
- 4:36 PM — Jan 25 —
- Source: The Huffington Post
A super-hard ridge pattern inspired by scorpions takes the sting out of erosion in a new paper published in the American Chemical Society journal, Langmuir. Read More
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