Sentences with phrase «break out of the soil»

This was the year for a cohort of big, reckless, ruby - eyed bugs to break out of the soil for their first and only chance to mate after 17...

This was the year for a cohort of big, reckless, ruby - eyed bugs to break out of the soil for their first and only chance to mate after 17 years of sucking plant roots in the dark.

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Trying to mimic the roles of wild herds That protective layer, it turns out, is vital for healthy soils that trap carbon, break down methane and produce more grasses every year to feed returning grazers.

Most breaks on fossilized bones are «the result of geological processes well after death,» says paleoanthropologist Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, such as movement in water or soil, tectonic forces, pressure of overlying sediments, and weathering or trampling of fossils as they erode out of sandstone.

An observant hunter first dug up a cocoon from under the soil of the host plant, which he broke open and took out the larva from within.

Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that survive extreme desiccation on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.

Mistaking him for millionaire Jeff Lebowski two thugs break into the apartment of the chilled out and unemployed Jeff (The Dude) Lebowski, believing that they can extort him for money, and soiling his living room rug in the process.

If we start out with a balanced system which contains frozen water at the poles, the mid to high latitudes begin to thaw, triggering soil greenhouse gas feedbacks (permafrost thaw and following oxic and anoxic sources add to the greenhouse gas budget), a chronic linear process (which helps to accelerate changes of the equilibrium state, reduces the ability of the atmosphere to break down greenhouse gases — less hydroxide radicals).

Over the past week, at least four high - profile papers largely funded by the U.S. government have contributed new evidence, observations, and insight into the role of soil and forests in the global carbon cycle — the flow of material in and out of land, air, life, and sea that's currently broken and getting worse.

The idea is that, over time, the mulch will break down anyway, but with added nutrients from human urine it will not just provide organic matter to the soil, but a dose of valuable nutrients with no need for turning the compost heap or spreading out the end result.

The specifics of what that means are still being ironed out, but the bill is likely to include soil health targets for soil health for farmers, as well as incentives for soil - friendly practices like crop rotation, cover crops, and the planting of hedgerows, wind breaks and other natural guards against erosion.

The swollen larval bodies break out of the root and the mobile males travel through the soil while the females remain attached to the root tissues by their heads.