Sentences with phrase «soil water more»

His team found cultivars such as TAM 111 and TAM 112 can use soil water more efficiently, which is important for producers to better manage wheat under dryland and limited - irrigation conditions.

Not exact matches

Hemp phytoremediates contaminated soils, uses much less water to grow than corn, soybean, and cotton, and it doesn't need herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides to grow successfully; hemp does all of this while producing more material in it's twelve or so feet of sun stretching life.

I mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other kinds of power.

Erosion and the loss of soil fertility cause further complications, and as yields decline, more and more petrochemical fertilizers are applied to the soil, finding their way into already polluted water supplies.

Nevertheless, Soil and Water Conservation Week or Stewardship Week continues, now tethered to the original Roman calendar observance on April 25th — known to liturgical Christians still in the know as the Major Rogation — rather than the more variable Minor Rogations, the three days before Ascension Thursday, highlighted in 1957.

Second, as soils become more compact more rain runs off, soil erosion accelerates, less water is absorbed into the soil and soil moisture for crops diminishes.

Nutiva is focused on regenerative agriculture so it can sequester carbon from the atmosphere and oceans, putting it into the soil so the soil can hold more water, use less fertilizer and enhance nutritional elements in foods.

We've been buying sunflower sprouts from Alm Hill every week and they use basically the same method — growing them in soil rather than using the more traditional sprouting method of soaking in water.

I think your problem has more to do with agricultural practices than location — things like locations with lots of sunshine, soil condition, watering, fertilizing, insect infestations, etc..

Organically - managed soils have a high potential to counter soil degradation as they are more resilient both to water stress and to nutrient loss.

Organic agriculture generally creates less soil and water pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions, and is more energy efficient.

Low GI, affordable, great taste, sweeter than sugar so can use less, most sustainable sweetener (coconut trees produce 50 - 75 % more sugar per acre but use less than 1/5 of the soil, nutrients & water of cane sugar!)

Read more about xeriscaping, which is landscaping or gardening that minimizes outdoor water use while maintaining soil integrity and building aesthetics.

They are ideal to use as wet bags for cloth diapers or soiled clothes, or water resistant storage bags to hold bottles, bottle parts, toys, eating utensils, hair accessories, cosmetics and more!

Nature must have put a concentrated store of nutrients in the seed, which can grow a new plant with no soil and nothing more than plain water.

This scenario is even more troubling from a food safety perspective: In addition to potential hygiene violations in Chinese slaughtering and processing plants, chickens raised on China's polluted soil, air and water could well be adversely affected by that nation's severe environmental degradation.

For more information log on to the Tompkins County Soil and Water website at tompkinscountyny.gov.

However, there is still a lot more to do, such as cleaning up the contamination of our soil and water way and finding another home for the bomb detonation unit,» said Assemblyman Benedetto.

For more information, please visit the Erie County Soil and Water Conservation District's ECWQC website.

Learn about soil health, water quality, wildlife management, plant biodiversity, and more.

Over the last thirty years, Saudi Arabia has drilled its soil in search of a resource far more precious than oil: water.

The analysis also showed that elevated carbon dioxide significantly enhanced soil water levels in drylands more so than it did in non-drylands, with soil water content increasing by 9 percent in non-drylands compared to 17 percent in drylands, Wang said.

Not only will fires get larger and more frequent, but water in streams and in soils will decrease.

Tangible effects nearby also appear: clinking our peat soil by water extraction is also a form of land degradation, leading to more carbon dioxide emissions, and therefore triggering climate change.

Increased temperatures trigger more evaporation from reservoirs, and accelerate water loss from soils needed for agricultural production — all factors that boost demand for water, he added.

In this sense, rewilding holds the potential to stabilize far more than natural areas in peril: it can enhance and protect national security by sequestering carbon and safeguarding fresh water, fertile soils, cleaner air.

Water loss increases as temperatures rise because plants use more water, and higher temperatures increase evaporative loss from the soil and from the water surface and lengthen the growing seWater loss increases as temperatures rise because plants use more water, and higher temperatures increase evaporative loss from the soil and from the water surface and lengthen the growing sewater, and higher temperatures increase evaporative loss from the soil and from the water surface and lengthen the growing sewater surface and lengthen the growing season.

«Increased water availability from climate change may release more nutrients into soil in Antarctica: Increases in phosphorus load in soil and aquatic ecosystems may allow for more abundant life.»

Air quality is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent, urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

When the Yukon is unfrozen, its banks and soils are more susceptible to erosion, causing dramatically higher levels of phosphorus to enter the river water.

«We don't think there are actual sulfur deficiencies yet, but clearly more sulfur is coming out of the soil and water than what is going in,» says U of I biogeochemist Mark David.

The shrubs draw more water from the soil than grass does, and their woody biomass magnifies the fire risk.

The map of soil loss by water erosion delineates areas of concern that will require special protection measures, such as financing more sustainable land management practices.

It is thought the reduced runoff is achieved because Festulolium's intense initial root growth and subsequent rapid turn - over, especially at depth, allows more water to be retained within the soil.

Like earthworms on farmland, the termites aerate the surrounding soil, allowing more water to penetrate.

«The rain is the same everywhere, but because termites allow water to penetrate the soil better, the plants grow on or near the mounds as if there were more rain,» Tarnita said.

The perennial roots also spend much more time in the soil throughout the year than their annual counterparts, allowing them to use water, nutrients, and sunlight more effectively.

No crop will survive a severe drought, he says, and other factors such as nutrient availability and soil quality are at play during water shortages, which tend to be more frequent but less severe than droughts.

Urbanization increases surface runoff, by creating more impervious surfaces such as pavement and buildings do not allow percolation of the water down through the soil to the aquifer.

But this fake tree has managed a feat that researchers have struggled for more than a century to duplicate in the lab: transpiration, the process of pumping water from the soil to leaves and then into the air.

It also enables the implementation of more advanced risk prediction tests, for example with the help of soil and water analyses.

«In the fine liquid film surrounding the hyphae, bacteria can move with much greater speed and direction and cover more distance than in soil water without hyphae,» says Tom Berthold, first author of the study and a doctoral researcher at the UFZ Department of Environmental Microbiology.

After finding that the torrefied biomass retained more water, the team tested the chemical properties of the soils.

Tests showed that water retention increased with the percentage of torrefied biomass, with 5 % biomass yielding a soil that contained about 5 % more water than the control soil.

Researchers measured the rate at which soil absorbed water on grasslands with active pika colonies and in places where pikas had been exterminated for more than 2 years.

As a senior scientist at the Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Muruganandam has been doing research on natural resource management and fisheries and aquatic system management, in particular, for more than 20 years.

This enables them to use soil nutrients, light and water far more effectively than monocultures, which ultimately leads to greater yields,» explains Dan Flynn, a postdoc in Schmid's group.

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) include more than 150 types of bacteria, found in water and soil, that can infect the lungs when inhaled.

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

The creation of manganese oxide requires even more oxygen than Mars's iron soil rusting, along with flowing water.