Medal: The American Legion Palisades Post 283 hosted five of the 65 living Medal of Honor recipients last week. About two dozen kids showed up to the first mentorship session followed by a second panel for adults.
When Bill Heal, who has died aged 86, began studying soil decomposers in the 1950s, researchers aimed to understand the ecosystem in which they functioned. Growing awareness of global heating in the decades since has given this work increased urgency: the very slow rates of decomposition of plant material in peat enable the removal of great quantities of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as well as storage of carbon in its acidic.