USING SOIL TO MAKE ART
Meet the soil scientists using soil to make stunning paints!
Assessing Soil Health: Soil Water Cycling
-Part one of a five‐part series on assessing soil health.
-Cover features Bob Schindelbeck, director of Cornell Soil Health Lab
Assessing Soil Health: Soil Carbon Cycling and Storage
-Part two of a five-part series on assessing soil health.
Assessing Soil Health: Soil Nitrogen Cycling
-Part three of a five-part series on assessing soil health
Carbon-chomping soil bacteria may pose hidden climate risk
-New microfluidic chip enables scientists to zoom in on soil carbon dynamics in 4D
SoiLEX – soil related legal instruments and soil governance
-The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Global Soil Partnership have launched SoiLEX, a global database on national soil legislation.
Soil degradation costs U.S. corn farmers a half-billion dollars every year
-One-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing loss of soil fertility
No-till practices in vulnerable areas significantly reduce soil erosion
-New modeling framework can help identify the most vulnerable areas