Sentences with phrase «as dry soils»

What Dr Knoblauch and his colleagues have now shown is that water - saturated permafrost soils without oxygen can be twice as harmful to the climate as dry soils — which means the role of methane has been greatly underestimated.

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Unlike rice and wheat that require many inputs in terms of soil fertility and water, millets grow well in dry regions as rainfed crops.

Additionally, American Academy of Pediatrics defines constipation in children as large, hard and dry stools that are associated with pain and soiling or presence of blood.

A dry bottom is the best defense against diaper rash, so change your child's diaper frequently or as soon as possible after it becomes wet or soiled.

A clean, dry diaper goes on and once its soiled, you want to change it as soon as possible.

Diaper need is the struggle to provide a sufficient number of clean, dry diapers to ensure that each diaper - wearing person can be changed out of wet or soiled diapers as often as necessary.

While others feel more comfortable about cloth diapers that are rinsed before soaking them in a wet pail, others have already adopted the dry method that has been proven to be equally as effective in keeping the soiled diapers from smelling as it sits in the sealed dry pail before laundry day.

Or use it as a shell, and lay down your inserts, tossing it in the dirty bin when it's soiled, and letting it air dry between uses.

Whether you use cloth diapers, disposables or both kinds, always change your baby as soon as possible after he or she wets or soils the diaper to keep the bottom as clean and dry as possible.

For a newborn baby's diapers, put the soiled diaper into a dry well - ventilated pail with a pail liner, or use the pail liner as a hanging pail liner to allow more air circulation.

If the scoop was dropped on the floor or otherwise soiled, clean it as carefully as you would your baby's bottles, and allow it to air - dry completely before placing it in the formula container.

In which case, you can leave a nylon diaper tote on the top of the dryer to serve as a short - term DRY PAIL for other soiled diapers while you are doing the family's laundry.

Dress your baby in dry, loose - fitting outfits and change often, as the outfit becomes soiled or wet.

In developing societies, masses of people are dirt poor — literally, as Brand saw in the Kenyan dump, grubbing in muck for pennies, others breaking their back tilling dry soil, dying early.

It can grow in poor soil as well as in dry climates, says agronomist David Bransby of Auburn University, so it requires little fertilizer and water and can grow in places that are not now useful cropland.

The soil from deserts and dry lands is key to the health of the world's oceans, as it is the most important source of iron and other nutrients.

Besides helping scientists better gauge how precipitation ultimately soaks into sandy soils, the research could help them better understand industrial processes, such as pharmaceutical manufacture, in which liquids are sprayed onto dry powdered materials — possibly improving quality control and consistency in the final products.

To this end it carries out research in the fields of water resources and desert soils; animal and poultry production; ecology and dry land agriculture, as well as socioeconomic studies.

Another theory: oxidation of organic matter — as permafrost thawed, as peaty soils burned or as a seaway dried up — may have caused the Paleocene - Eocene warming.

Only where the soils show high basic content, partly as a result of a precipitation - evaporation ratio approaching unity, does the herbage synthesize protein adequately and cure on the stalk to provide nutritious feed in the dry season.

Both the timing and quantity of precipitation matter, as does the type of soil and whether it's dry or already waterlogged when rain hits.

Those markers of life were the most bountiful at the first sampling time, and then declined as the soil dried out again.

LONDON — One of the driest spring seasons on record in northern Europe has sucked soils dry and sharply reduced river levels to the point that governments are starting to fear crop losses and France, in particular, is bracing for blackouts as its river - cooled nuclear power plants may be forced to shut down.

During the study of a number of aardvarks by researchers of the Brain Function Research Group at the University of the Witwatersrand, all but one of the study animals — as well as other aardvarks in the area — died because of a severe drought, with air temperatures much higher than normal and very dry soil in the area.

As I stand there looking at the giants, I imagine what else is out there, buried or surfacing among the sandy soil and dry rocks of the cold and windy Gobi Desert.

Overall, the antioxidant content increased and fat content of the beans decreased during the dry season as temperatures rose and soil moisture dropped.

As the dry season continues to lengthen, the flora draw more and more water from the soil, which eventually begins to dry out.

The instrument measured roughly the same tiny concentration of water (about 2 percent) in the surface soils as it did in the freshly uncovered soil, and the newly excavated area did not dry out over time — as would be expected if moist subsurface material were uncovered.

To avoid drying out and dying, the inch - and - a-quarter-long frog descends from the trees at night to bathe its body in dew and moist soil, absorbing water through its skin and storing it as urine.

But mixing two kinds of soil bacteria that are stationary on dry surfaces allows the combo — by means not yet clear — to expand unusually quickly, multiplying and oozing as a colony across a firm laboratory agar surface.

As with overgrazing, fires dry out the soil and stymie the convection that brings rainfall.

What this means for the future is difficult to predict: rainfall is projected to increase, as is temperature, both of which lead to more methane emissions, but some models predict a drying out of soils which would reduce said emissions... I guess we'll find out.

The researchers will aim to find the genetic underpinnings of how plants react to stressors like drought, heat, pathogens and pests, as well as the salt that can accumulate in soils drying more quickly in a warming environment.

As follows, the problem for Kansas: Warmer winters are bad news for the wheat farmers» requirement for freezing temperatures to grow winter wheat, and during summer, warmer days rob Kansas of precious soil moisture, drying out valuable wheat crop.

Unimaginable as it may seem, there's a thriving population of micro-orgnisms in the cold, dry, nutrient - poor soils of Antarctica.

And if you travel, they are great as a house plant, as you only have water when the soil is dry.

The Japanese carmaker said it chose the Sambhar Lake in Rajasthan as the location for the attempt for its level and dry lakebed surface and soil which is soft enough to leave a deep impression to be captured by camera drones high above.

As part of its life cycle, the fungus grows in the soil (saprophytic cycle) and matures, drying into fragile strands of cells.

The rich soil and dry Mediterranean climate of Napa County, California, has produced the country's most sought - after wine grapes for as long as the drink has been enjoyed in America.

Wilkes» highly subjective work consists of objects (strollers, soiled dishes, dolls, dried flower petals) that recur as symbolic leitmotifs.

Extracted as soil from the ground, the clay is dried, crushed, pressed, cut, often fired and then laid to give form to walls, buildings and pavement.

What this means for the future is difficult to predict: rainfall is projected to increase, as is temperature, both of which lead to more methane emissions, but some models predict a drying out of soils which would reduce said emissions... I guess we'll find out.

Since it is later in the afternoon, this gives the ground a chance to heat up, and as a consequence, rather than being absorbed, the precipitation is more likely to evaporate, drying out the soil, the plants, etc..

With these caveats, I am struck by the tendency of storms to form at or near the boundary between the dry soils of the western plains and the moist soils further east; one can clearly see this as the boundary between green and tan land surface in the satellite loop.

As a farmer, my observations are that: Converting organic forest soils to pasture releases substantial carbon, the ground is dried in the process and the organic matter that had been pickled in the wet acidic subsurface environment starts to rot.

Basically a terra cotta spike which you push into your potting soil, it will hold an upside down wine bottle filled with water upright, and then, as the soil around it dries, it slowly allows the water to seep out through the terra cotta spike and replenish the root zone.

The crystals are then dried to a white powder called struvite that can then be used for plant fertilization, and Ganrot says her trial tests show the powdered struvite works as well or better than commercial fertilizers (the powdered form helps it stay longer in the soil).

Like we mentioned above, as temperatures rise, evaporation increases and soils dry out.

Staying stuck at one point in that progression — a sweeping corn field planted over and over again — invites common agricultural problems such as pests, diseases, weeds, and depleted and dry soils.

Previous research has shown that soil moisture plays a critical part in both permafrost thaw and carbon exchange with the atmosphere — as the permafrost breaks down, surface water may drain away to deeper soil layers, leaving the topsoil high and dry.