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Students work with nature to improve soil health

CHICO — On an otherwise quiet day at the Chico State University Farm, other than the distant sounds of pile burns crackling, students Kaylee Mulhearn and Paige Flaig could be found in one of dozens of ...
Farmers Edge Labs is pushing big on lab testing for soil and tissue sampling, especially with the changing weather patterns.
Officials said that around 160 government schools, both secondary and higher secondary, have been selected in Bihar in all 38 ...
ABSTRACT: This study investigates the effect of adding granite powder to black cotton soil, focusing on its impact on the strength and mechanical properties of the soil. Different percentages of ...
MEDINA, Ohio -- The city hopes that by later this summer, they will receive the green light from the state to move forward with redevelopment of the former Sunoco site at 426 W. Liberty St. “I ...
When you test more than 200,000 soil samples in a year, you not only learn something about how Arkansans grow crops, gardens and lawns, but also the value of recommendations that result from soil test ...
The Oklahoma State University Extension Soil, Water and Forage Analytical Laboratory on the OSU campus tests more than 58,000 samples each year to protect Oklahoma’s natural resources and support ...
Soil liquefaction—the process where saturated soil loses its structure and transforms to a fluid-like state—can have devastating outcomes, as evidenced by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.
Microbiologist Martin Reinhard Rasmussen has developped and built the MARTINIS system as part of his PhD project at Aarhus University. Here he is in the field with his prototype. As a courtesy to the ...
Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying to find out its effects. By Nina Agrawal Nina Agrawal shadowed University ...