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Many people think of science and art as complete opposites, but one University of Wyoming researcher is working to combine the two. Wyoming Public Radio s Ashley Piccone spoke with Karen Vaughan, a pedology professor who is using the soil in her research to make watercolor paint. She said soil is more important than you would think.
Karen Vaughan: I mean, soils are important for so many different reasons. The obvious ones that we are in touch with every single day is the food that we eat and the plants that we rely on to cycle our air. Gosh, I don t know how to summarize the importance of soil but, I mean, it s part of everything. I challenge my students to tell me one thing that you did today that did not rely on the soil and I still haven t gotten a single answer that I m satisfied with that does not have to do with the soil.
Terrifying Study Finds Melting Permafrost Could Unleash Way More Carbon Than We Thought
11 FEBRUARY 2021
Trapped within the Arctic permafrost there s a whole lot of carbon - potentially up to four times more carbon than the combined amount of CO2 modern humans have emitted.
It s one of the reasons scientists are so worried about the Arctic melting - as the ice goes, this carbon will be released. But now a new study has shown that a melting Arctic may actually unleash far more carbon than even our worst-case models have predicted.
This is because hungry microbes, hiding in the Arctic soil, seem to be chewing their way through tiny molecular iron manacles that would otherwise be shackling carbon to the soil - meaning we ve underestimated the risk of it being released into the atmosphere.
Sterling Metals Corp.: Sterling Metals Reports on Soil Sampling Results from the Sail Pond Silver Project, Newfoundland, with a Maximum Assay Result of 657 g/t Silver
Sterling or the
Company ) (TSXV:
SAG) is very pleased to report on the results of the 2020 soil sampling program from its Sail Pond Silver Project (
Sail Pond or the
Project ) located on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. The multi-element soil results, as illustrated in
Figure 1, confirm the presence and expand upon the Company s expectations of multi-kilometer scale linear silver, copper, zinc and lead soil anomalies in the central core of the Project which coincides with, and expands upon, areas of known mineralization in outcrop.
Soil chemistry aims to characterise the contents of soils to understand their ability to promote plant growth and to act as vectors for environmental contaminants. Click to read more.