Sentences with phrase «water out of the soil»

«Shrubs are adept at pulling water out of the soil, so that in some cases, a decent - sized shrub may use just as much water as a much taller tree.

By contrast, in transpiration, plants simply suck water out of the soil and push it into the air without changing its isotopic composition.

That'll certainly work, but if I was stranded on Mars I would just make water out of the soil.

Not exact matches

We are giving out of fresh water, of wood, or soil, of seafood, and of oil.

Given that we are rich when the world is poor, that we cling to our nuclear arms as if world extermination were a noble risk, destroy ancient forests, gouge the landscape, pollute the soil, water and air, that we copulate and abort with unrestrained abandon — how then are we to interpret Jesus» words, «It is what comes out of a person that defiles,» so as to come up smelling like roses?

Reduce The Toxic Load: Keep Chemicals Out of the Air, Water, Soil and our Bodies Buying organic food promotes a less toxic environment for all living things.

But changes in land use — draining the water to plant acres of crops that demand drier soil, a common practice in tropical regions, or building a road through an area — can dry out the peat.

To make room for oil palm plantations and other crops, companies will raze existing trees (the source of future peat) and drain the water to dry out the soil.

Water, air, and nutrients pass through into the soil to let your plants keep thriving while weeds are kept out of the party.

In the Atacama Desert of Chile, one of the world's most desiccated spots, perchlorate in the soil can condense water out of the atmosphere.

Thrusting out a side branch to seek out water turns out to be a local matter on a root, Dinneny and colleagues found using micro-CT scans of roots in soil.

This chain of water molecules extends all the way from the leaves down to the roots and even extends out from the roots into the soil.

Copious amounts evaporate out of the ditches that line the hillsides and seep out the bottom into the loamy soil, well before the water even gets to ranchers» fields.

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.

«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.

According to Dohm, this is a likely indication that the elements were leached out of the soil by runoff water and concentrated in sediment on the muddy floor of a standing ocean.

The study accounted for evapotranspiration, which is water released into the air through plant transpiration and soil evaporation, as well as precipitation, and surface water flowing into and out of the Central Valley.

A recent assessment carried out by the JRC estimates that water erodes 970 million tonnes of soil every year in the EU.

McKay suggested that the Viking Mars lander may have inadvertently oxidized any evidence of life it its samples of Martian soil, proposed an expedition to gather samples of water from the Saturn moon Enceladus, and offered a child - friendly analogy for how alien life might differ from life on Earth: «I could build a table out of Lincoln logs and you could build a table out of Legos: At the macroscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be tables; at the microscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be built from carbon atoms.

Some soil suspended in the water will drain out with it but the majority of the eroded soil will settle to the bottom and stay in the pan.

Try the same activity using different types of soil: clay, loam, sandy, silty, potting soil, compost, etcetera, but put a screen on top of the cup to keep organic matter from floating out as you pour the water into the cup.

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.

Storm drainage systems typically redirect most floodwater out to sea, but given the region's intense water deficit, hydrology scientists at the University of California, Davis, are experimenting with so - called groundwater banking, which involves sending storm water to flood fallow fields where it can percolate into the soil and replenish aquifers.

Those deep beds of top soil were sort of like deep beds of coal or something; they're running out, you know, they depend on to be used at least the way we're using them now, tons of synthetic fertilizer, immense amounts of water, which in much of the world, we're running out of.

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.

You know, for example we all have E. coli inside of us; a lot of it leaves us in a way that I don't need to get into, but in any case E. coli ends up in the soil and in the water and there's not a lot of food out there for it.

The goal is to do a complete accounting of the movement of water from the time it hit the surface of a plant and passed through moss and soil, until it flowed out of the basin and into the network of high forest streams on its way to the lowlands.

It is intriguing that MECA could have found anything more positive than that, but NASA and the University of Arizona are taking steps to prevent word from leaking out on the nature of the discovery made during MECA's second soil test, in which water from Earth was automatically stirred with Martian soil.

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.

When this occurs, the uranium drops out of the water supply and can be recovered from the soil.

They looked at several years» worth of surface - temperature measurements by THEMIS, to figure out the water concentration in the soil.

Berkeley Lab received these competitive awards from ARPA - E's Rhizosphere Observations Optimizing Terrestrial Sequestration (ROOTS) program, which seeks to develop crops that take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it in soil — enabling a 50 percent increase in carbon deposition depth and accumulation while also reducing nitrous oxide emissions by 50 percent and increasing water productivity by 25 percent.

Martians are not going to get their water by importing hydrazine from Earth and burning it with precious cabin oxygen, they are going to bake it out of the soil.

Soil can harbor mold spores, a very common allergen, especially when plants are kept out of direct sunlight or aren't given time to dry between waterings.

The uniformly spaced plants crowd out weed growth, the ideal soil mix reduces the need every inch of soil remains aerated and fluffy, all areas of the bed can be reached easily for tending, and the small footprint means water savings.

Add the water and the soil to a gallon - size bucket or jar and keep in a place out of direct heat or cold (I keep in my garage).

Using methods like planting shrubs, fertilizing with compost, and moving cover crops, the Institute has been able to keep carbon out of the atmosphere and in the soil, where it can better conserve water.

So life still happens and as much as you and I can do the things to try to create these little bubbles of you know, a nutrition bubble and lifestyle, and all these great little parts of our ecosystem, we still operate in an ecosystem that is generally pretty toxic in terms of all the things that are out in the air, food, water, soil and you're going — you're going to come across stuff and it is just about what do you do to increase your resilience against these things once you kill them off, like you said was some of the post infection support, you know, people may hear — hear this and think oh kill, kill, kill, but eventually we're strengthening us, too, as the host and so that's why you and I, you know, maybe we take an extra day off or we go spend some more time in nature because that's the stuff that's going to heal you in the long term.

Carefully pour water on the surface of the soil until some drains out the bottom.

You gave me soil and water and of course sun to help it grow until it plops out of my head.

In anticipation of spring, spread out spring flower bulbs, potting soil, flowerpots, gardening gloves, trowels, and water.

The level of activities carried out in each constituency is dependent on how long Green Belt Movement has been engaged on the ground, the degree of community commitment and involvement, availability of water, quality of soils, climate and availability of financial resources.

An abundance of underground water rises out of the 1.6 - hectare dark, fertile soil, filling two dams and providing the vast gardens of water.

Brilliant, stunning, the best thing on the GameCube since I dropped my soiled undies on it two months ago before I went to bed... It blows «Resident Evil» out of the water.

On April 26th 1986 there was an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, reactor number four spewed out huge amounts of radiation contaminating soil, water and atmosphere with the radiation A new show The Unseen: The Red Forest opens at the end of the month at the Continue Reading»

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).

She describes how the first hole (and presumably the new one) appear to have formed as methane is released from a warming mix of ice, water and soil, building up pressure that explosively pushed out the top of the hole, heaving chunks of earth many yards in some directions.

The submersion of south Louisiana is already underway, as a result of modifications to our rivers by the Army Corps of Engineers which speeds the flow of soil - bearing water through our fine state and prevents it from depositing replacement soil on its way out as it was previously doing.

Even in areas where precipitation does not decrease, these increases in surface evaporation and loss of water from plants lead to more rapid drying of soils if the effects of higher temperatures are not offset by other changes (such as reduced wind speed or increased humidity).5 As soil dries out, a larger proportion of the incoming heat from the sun goes into heating the soil and adjacent air rather than evaporating its moisture, resulting in hotter summers under drier climatic conditions.6

Keeping soil water, surface run - off and rainwater out of the cellar needs serious consideration and some leakage may have to be tollerated.