soilscience

Giant store of global soil carbon revealed (Soil Inorganic Carbon) (phys.org)

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi7918

Virtual Munsell Color Wheel (www.andrewwerth.com)

Our Breathing Earth: A Review of Soil Respiration Science - Eos (eos.org)

How to gather inspiration with soil (buttondown.email)

EU waters down pollution targets and rethinks pesticide plans in bid to quell farmers’ protests – as it happened (www.theguardian.com)

Summary of the day [6 Febuary 2024]...

How to identify alluvial soils with three clues (buttondown.email)

French govt under fire for putting pesticide phase-out on hold (phys.org)

The protestes are not all done yet, some farmers Union are against this government’s decision and are still fighting for better revenues among other things.

Soil based fuel cell (interestingengineering.com)

Link to article dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3631410

Describing soil teaches us to accept uncertainty (buttondown.email)

Where do I start with learning about the soil in my backyard?

Long story short - I moved from a country where there’s an abundance of black soil to a country with a dry climate and not much black soil. Not only that, I moved from an apartment to a house with plenty of land. I believe strongly that growing my own produce is the way to go, but sadly I lack a lot of skill....

Large sensory analysis of vegetables from conventional, organic and no-till practices (arxiv.org)

A nice, moist clay loam (slrpnk.net)

triangle (slrpnk.net)

From Springtails to Pauropods: Soil Biodiversity Monitoring in the UK (m.youtube.com)

Curran et al. 2023 - Soil stockpile age does not impact vegetation establishment in a cold, arid natural gas field (www.biorxiv.org)

This topic is pretty hotly debated. One of the issues is that time is a huge factor in getting meaningful data, at least in a mining sphere, where stockpile are huge and soil is stored for a long time.