soil
-
California’s Megadrought Is Making Water Taste Like Arse
The climate crisis is rendering parts of California downright dangerous with wildfires and extreme heat. To add insult to injury, it’s also making drinking water in some areas literally taste like dirt.
-
The Economic Case for Restoring Abandoned Oil Wells
A study published Monday in Nature Sustainability calculates that abandoned oil and gas wells cover more than 2 million acres of the U.S. And if that land is restored, it could deliver billions of dollars in benefit for a fraction of the cost of restoration.
-
This Scanner In The Dirt Captures All That’s Going On Underground
Video: Dirt is boring. Soil isn’t fun. Who cares what’s happening down there. So I thought. Josh Williams changed my mind with his SoilCam, a waterproof scanner that’s controlled by a Raspberry Pi. He places it in the dirt so we can see everything that’s happening underground. It’s so alive.
-
This Is How We Can Secure Our Food Supply And Stabilise Our Climate
As the Paris climate summit draws to a close and world leaders scramble to find more ways to make a dent in humanity’s carbon problem, a commonsense but oft-ignored strategy has made its way onto the table: sticking carbon back in the soil.