Organic matter will boost garden soil. What to add and what to avoid
Good organic amendments for garden soils include wood byproducts such as sawdust and bark mulch, rotted manure, grass or ...
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Why soil matters (and what we can do to save it)
Healthy soil is a dynamic living ecosystem: a complex combination of minerals and organic matter containing air, water, and life. Worms are not alone in the ground, just a gram of dirt can contain ...
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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented ... nitrogen and other organic matter, but the chemical composition of the organic material was largely ...
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Fungi’s hidden power: How fungal biomass holds carbon in soil across ecosystems for millennia
In an article featured in Science China Earth Sciences, researchers from Tianjin University elucidate the coupling relationship between soil fungi and reactive minerals in ecosystems by utilizing ...
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Study highlights trade-off between soil organic carbon formation and stability
However, the physical and chemical protection provided by soil aggregates and minerals, while stabilizing organic matter, can limit the availability of substrates for microbes, reducing their CUE ...
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Unprecedented asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals crucial to life, scientists say
(CNN) — Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in ... nitrogen and other organic matter, but the chemical composition of the organic material was largely ...