Sentences with phrase «soil by»

It also shows you have to save on soil by inserting empty flower buckets upside down into your terracotta pots.

To encourage the roots to grow into the surrounding ground, loosen the soil by scoring the sides of the hole with a shovel.

It features tillandsia plants that grow without soil by absorbing water and nutrients through their leaves, and shells and sand that add a beachcomber vibe.

Make sure that the water has soaked well below the surface of the soil by digging down with a hand trowel to check.

Think organic and build in quality soil by doing research about what's in yours and amending it.

Freshen garden soil by removing the existing layer of mulch and replace it.

• Assess the quality of soil to determine crop planting plans and dig trenches accordingly • Seed crops by hand or by using dedicated machineries by ensuring that they are planted in designated areas • Irrigate farm soil by using irrigation channels and ensure that pipes and pumps are properly maintained • Assign work activities to farm hands and direct and monitor them to ensure that they work according to specifications

But in its 6 - 1 ruling, the high court said Canada's State Immunity Act expressly bars any claim on Canadian soil by her son or Kazemi's estate for torture acts — however «heinous» — that occurred abroad.

The body is then fully covered in soil by the people who dug the grave.

Nitrogen gets into the soil by being «fixed» from the air by microbes and certain plants, such as soy, Wieder says.

Moisture is additionally lost from soil by gravitational runoff.

This instrument can distinguish between green vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation — such as wood, dead vegetation and surface litter — and soil by analysing small changes in the colour spectrum of the land.

We are all claiming our rights to a healthy environment with clean air, water and soil by demanding an end to the needless and dangerous over-dependence on coal.

44 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Solutions Global Warming Prevention Cleanup Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Remove CO2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Shift from coal to natural gas Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Improve energy efficiency Sequester CO2 deep underground Shift to renewable energy resources Sequester CO2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Figure 20.14 Solutions: methods for slowing atmospheric warming during this century.

We can put that carbon back into the soil by following smarter farming practices.

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

36 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Solutions Global Warming Prevention Cleanup Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Remove CO2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Shift from coal to natural gas Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Improve energy efficiency Sequester CO2 deep underground Shift to renewable energy resources Sequester CO2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Figure 20.14 Solutions: methods for slowing atmospheric warming during this century.

A new study revealed that over 50 trillion kilograms of carbon could be released into the atmosphere from the soil by mid-century if no moves to mitigate climate change are successful.

DU's project is preserving the carbon sequestered in the soil by avoiding the conversion of these valuable prairies to cropland.

All such «life cycle» studies attempt to estimate all the carbon emissions created by producing and burning ethanol, including carbon released from soil by plowing and from fuel burned in planting, harvesting and refining.

Because of the severe drought of 1997 and 1998, we calculate that approximately 270,000 km2 of Amazonian forest had completely depleted plant - available water stored in the upper ® ve metres of soil by the end of the 1998 dry season.

Because of the severe drought of 1997 and 1998, we calculate that approximately 270,000 km2 of Amazonian forest had completely depleted plant - available water stored in the upper five metres of soil by the end of the 1998 dry season.

This technique helps protect the soil by leaving crop stubble on the surface and leaves fields unturned.

Considering the many feet of topsoil that have disappeared down the rivers since the sodbusters reached the Great Plains — not to mention the Mediterranean and Asian areas reduced to mineral soil by sheep — I wonder if the trees removed in temperate area deforestation count for anywhere near as much living material as the soil they grew in and held in place.

Harvested fresh from fertile volcanic soil by the hand of a knowledgeable local.

Wear gloves while gardening and wash your hands when you are through, as the parasite can be deposited in the soil by infected neighborhood cats.

Children can pick up infections from contaminated soil by putting their hands in their mouth after playing, although serious consequences of Toxocara infection in people is quite rare, these worms can cause blindness, heart problems and epilepsy in children.

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Making the E9 that more special is that it turned out to be one of the very few Bimmers to score important victories on U.S. soil by defeating Porsche at Sebring, Daytona and Talladega.

The film throughout has characters forcing each other to confront the very things they wish to avoid, as if training a dog not to soil by rubbing its face in its own shit.

These nutrients are deficient in modern diets due to removal of minerals from drinking water by treatment, depletion of minerals from soil by agriculture, or modern lifestyles that deprive us of vitamin D by indoor living.

It is a microbe (bacteria) that is produced by microorganisms internally (synthesised in the gut) and elsewhere (e.g. in soil by microbes that live in a symbiotic relationship with plant roots).

Minerals are inorganic substances that plants absorb through soil by their roots or from rainwater hitting their leaves.

Audbhida lavaṇa is a type of salt that is collected and purified from the soil by calcination, and is rich in sodium bicarbonate.

Additionally, organic farming practices reduce the risk of erosion by avoiding practices such as tilling, which ploughs and cultivates the soil by tearing, turning and circulating it.

The project should bring numerous environmental benefits, including reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 880 to 1111 tonnes per year, cutting chemical fertiliser use and water consumption by 20 % and increasing carbon sequestration in soil by the same amount.

Some plants rely on ammonia and other nitrogenous wastes incorporated into the soil by decaying matter.

The worms» passageways introduce air into the soil by allowing oxygen and water to percolate down to growing plant roots and letting carbon dioxide produced from the plants flow back out into the atmosphere.

A new study maps the trace concentrations of water implanted in the lunar soil by the solar wind, a water source that could be used as resource in future lunar exploration.

For those soils where strip - till would be appropriate, it can be a powerful method that benefits the soil by both working to help conserve soil and improving soil physical properties.

Scientists have, for the first time, traced the nanoparticles taken up from the soil by crop plants and analysed the chemical states of their metallic elements.

By identifying the molecular signals emitted through the soil by friendly fungi, the protein enables a plant to «roll out the red carpet» for cell colonisation by the fungi, and all the survival advantages this mutually - beneficial relationship brings — the fungi feeds minerals such as phosphate into plant cells in return for sugar extraction.

On one plot, he installed underground cables to warm the soil by 9 degrees Fahrenheit.

These plants» aggressive feeding habits help them survive in poor soil by giving them a new source of nitrogen and other nutrients.

The warm air increased the temperature of the soil by 1.5 to 2 °C.

On Mars, it may have been made in the atmosphere by solar ultraviolet light or in the ice and soil by cosmic rays.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — The first full analysis of martian soil by the Curiosity rover has detected simple carbon compounds that could be the first traces of past martian life ever found, NASA scientists announced here today at a press conference at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

«However, bacterial and fungal numbers were higher in exposed environments, possibly due to ongoing colonisation of exposed soil by airborne propagules.»

The destruction of healthy soil by compaction, overgrazing and toxic levels of manure that poison the earth and emit climate - warming methane are some of the reasons raising livestock has traditionally been discouraged as an environmentally conscious farming technique.

That includes the UK Space Agency, which earlier this year revealed plans to open a spaceport on British soil by 2018.