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"New method uses sound waves to map soil health, stop famine, and restore farmlands"
#Farming #Environment

New method uses sound waves to map soil health, stop famine, and restore farmlands | The Optimist Daily
A new “soilsmology” tool uses seismic waves to map underground health, giving farmers better ways to boost yields and restore damaged soil.

Mapping the unseen: How Europe is fighting back against invisible soil pollution #Europe

Mapping the unseen: How Europe is fighting back against invisible soil pollution
Across Europe, scientists and citizens are uncovering a hidden legacy of contamination beneath their feet. From Denmark's first PFAS crisis to a new generation of soil-mapping initiatives, a continent is learning to see—and stop—the pollution it once ignored

"The secret to tackling the climate crisis could be right under our feet. Here’s why"
#Climate #ClimateChange

How soil could be the secret weapon to meet climate targets
Despite being one of the largest natural carbon sinks, most nations exclude soil from their climate plans.

Their father, who they thought was human, revealed himself to be a man of the soil once drunk. Crackling browns darkened by wine dribbling down his chin, writhing with small insects and budding flora. They couldn't bear laying eyes on his breath any longer, the flood was all of God's open might they could handle.

🐚 Soil fungus and calcium team up to break down bioplastics faster
#fungus

Soil fungus and calcium team up to break down bioplastics faster
A common soil fungus (Purpureocillium lilacinum BA1S), when combined with calcium and mild alkalinity, speeds up the breakdown of biodegradable plastic (PBAT), offering a greener path for managing agricultural and packaging waste.

I love this painting, because you can almost smell the soil. The wire on the fence, and the nettles in front, give a striking composition against the view behind the garden. Then you realise when it was painted.
Stanley Spencer - Landscape in North Wales - 1938
#art #wales

Microsoft agrees to buy a record 2.85M soil carbon credits from Indigo Carbon linked to regenerative US agriculture; a source values the deal at $171M-$228M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate…

Coast Guard allows Swastikas, nooses, and confederate flags.
The U.S. military accidentally conducts incursion into Mexico.
Senator Slotkin joins me to talk about intelligence agencies conducting operations on American soil
and to respond to Trump's calls to execute her.
https://

The Influence of Space Weathering on the Far-Ultraviolet Reflectance of Apollo-Era Soils: #Moon

More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/03/chemicals-found-english-soil-toxins-medical-substances-farming

Its nice to encouraging stories like this - and exciting.
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agricu…

Its nice to encouraging stories like this - and exciting.
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agricu…

“How did it feel for the man who built a home, only to watch it turn to the rubble? How does a farmer stand before the land he tended year after year, now lying barren—no scent of soil, no whisper of harvest? How does a father tell his son the school he loved is gone, that the garden where he played is now only a rumor in the rubble? How does a mother walk through the ghost of a playground, finding a small shoe, a torn notebook, a toy she once mended? How do neighbors look at one another, wo…

Help Sehwel family with their medical treatment
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza. I'm creating this Chuffed campaign for the family to help afford these things and hopefully help them get out of Gaza when the opportunity arises. Here's Aseel's writing:

“All my life I’ve wanted to ‘see’ into the soil,” he said. “Maybe now we can.”
Cheap “soilsmology” can apparently let farmers find out what's going on in their soil without disruptive coring or plowing. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/<…

"Pineapple Waste Soil Amendment Transforms Deserts into Productive Farmlands"
#Pineapples #Deserts
https://

Pineapple Waste Soil Amendment Transforms Deserts into Productive Farmlands | Happy Eco News
A pineapple waste soil amendment developed by researchers at Khalifa University boosts desert soil water retention by 32% and doubles nutrient storage, helping arid regions grow more food.

💊 More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/03/chemicals-found-english-soil-toxins-medical-substances-farming

More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances
Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds

Muddled.
'Value' has specific meanings in Marxist political economy.
It isn't the appropriate term for what Boillier is discussing.
'Wealth' is closer but still not right.
It's a matter of standpoint: the abundance of nature isn't purely for human use, so those two terms don't apply well, or at all.
Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative - resilience

Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative
The bounty brought by rainfall, fertile soil, and biodiversity cannot truly be expressed through quantitative proxies, prices, algorithms, or markets because this “wealth” doesn’t exist in static, objectified forms or essentialist identities

“We got interested in this because other researchers, for years, have been describing this type of ecological memory
of soil microbes having some way to remember from their ancestors' past,”
“We thought this was really fascinating. It has a lot of important implications for how we can grow plants, including things like corn and wheat.
Precipitation itself has a big influence on how plants grow,
but also the memory of the microbes living in those soils could also p…

New study explores ‘legacy effects’ of soil microbes on plants across Kansas
Click for more on research in Nature Microbiology

The Department of Commerce says the US and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement as part of which Taiwan will invest $250B in chip production capacity in the US (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/us-taiwan-chips-deal-china.html

Taiwan will invest $250 billion in U.S. chipmaking under new trade deal
The U.S. and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement to build chips and chip factories on American soil, the Department of Commerce announced Thursday.

🐿️ Midwest Farms Are Going Nuts
#agriculture

Midwest Farms Are Going Nuts
A shift toward growing chestnuts, pecans and walnuts is reviving soil once exhausted by dreary corn and soy.

UCLA engineers are turning disaster into data after L.A.'s devastating fires.
They've tested soil on over 1,000 properties for toxic metals like lead and arsenic, mapped infrastructure damage, and analyzed water quality—all to help communities recover faster and prepare better for the next fire.

Today’s sanctions also zero in on eight cyber military intelligence officers for working for the GRU for cyber operations targeting Yulia Skripal with X-agent malware and, five years later, the attempted murder of Yulia and her father on UK soil
https://www.

UK cracks down on Russian intelligence agency authorised by Putin to target Skripals
UK announces sanctions against the GRU as Dawn Sturgess Inquiry report finds Putin personally ordered their activity in Salisbury in 2018.

reincarnated in filthy soil

👍
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/soil-sandpit-children-dirty-biodiversity-finnish-nurseries-research-microbes-bacteria-aoe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other…

👍
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/soil-sandpit-children-dirty-biodiversity-finnish-nurseries-research-microbes-bacteria-aoe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other…

Watching a tree in our garden wafting in the mild breeze we have here at the moment. The fact that the soil is also wafting is somewhat... unsettling.
#stormbram

The most Britannica manages to mention of what was actually in that land is this:
❝Much of the territory turned out to contain rich mineral resources, productive soil, valuable grazing land, forests, and wildlife resources of inestimable value.❞
Not a single mention, AFAICT, of the fact that there were already people there.
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"Statewide survey aims to put California’s fungi on the conservation map"
#US #USA #America #California

Statewide survey aims to put California’s fungi on the conservation map
Getting to The Cedars, an ecological preserve in California’s Sonoma county, is a slog. Multiple rivers and creeks must be crossed, and it can be tough going on an often storm-destroyed road. But it’s home to a rich diversity of species found nowhere else on Earth that are uniquely adapted to serpentine soil, composed of […]

WTF does kidnapping a foreign leader on his own soil have to do with US Law Enforcement?
"This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement"
Trump says US forces have captured Nicolas Maduro
Here's text from a Truth Social post:
"The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Cou…

Donald Trump says US forces have 'captured' Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro
US President Donald Trump says the US has "captured" Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who earlier declared a national emergency and hit out at US "military aggression" after attacks in the capital, Caracas.

Hey all. Just wanted to post the other two #photos from my recent blog post https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/a-familiar-mountain-never-gets-old/
It's one o…

La pollution plastique va plus que doubler d'ici 2040, générant l'équivalent d'un camion poubelle de déchets chaque seconde.
#plastique #environnement

A Generalized Formulation for Accurate and Robust Determination of Soil Shear Strength from Triaxial Tests
Altamirano-Mu\~niz Emilio Fernando
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13985 ht…

🗿 A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil: What companies owe the Indigenous people they studied
https://theconversation.com/a-billion-dollar-drug-was-found-in-easter-i…

A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what scientists and companies owe the Indigenous people they studied
Cancer. Diabetes. Aging itself. Rapamycin’s potential to treat an array of diseases has been a source of scientific fascination. But many aren’t aware of its origins – and its complicated legacy.

Sonnet 064 - LXIV
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself conf…

MQTT Dashboard, Client App für Android Smartphones. Wenn man sich schon mal mit jq beschäftigt hat, um json Dateien auszuwerten, kommt hiermit sofort klar. Gruppennamen ergänzen usw. ermöglichen ein individuelles Dashboard. Ich brauchte das für die beiden LilyGo-HiGrow Umweltsensoren.
Gibt es hier: https://

Is the USA now employing Little Green Men tactics to start exerting military force on Mexican soil??
#TheAmericanFascist #usa #mexico #hybridwar #russia
Seen and video posted originally from the @… account on BSky.
Comment from Anonymous:
“US Trump regime lackeys in civilian outfits illegally snuck into Mexico to install restricted area, department of defense, signs on Mexican territory. Locals caught them red handed and the USians fled by boat covering their faces.”

"Life after death: How earthworms keep facilitating carbon capture"
#Worms #Environment
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Life after death: How earthworms keep facilitating carbon capture
Earthworms don't stop shaping soil processes when they die. A new study shows they can still help store carbon in the soil, even after death. "This is quite surprising," says lead author Tullia Calogiuri. "Most of our knowledge about earthworms comes from their activity while alive, such as burrowing, feeding, and producing feces. Finding that they also play a role after death is exciting."

The US supreme court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of Donald Trump’s executive order to heavily restrict the right to birthright citizenship,
the long-held constitutional principle that individuals born on US soil are automatically United States citizens.
The order was a contentious part of the administration’s bigoted immigration crackdown
– and a step that would transform the interpretation of a 19th-century constitutional provision.
Multiple judges across…

#morningwalk looks kind of grey today 🤔

SoilGen: A Comprehensive Tool for Generating Synthetic Soil Profiles for Geotechnical and Seismic Analysis
Mersad Fathizadeh, Hosna Kianfar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12429 http…

🌾 Growing rice in the UK 'not so crazy' as climate warms
#rice

Growing rice in the UK 'not so crazy' as climate warms
Wearing large rubber boots, Nadine Mitschunas joyfully handled mature rice plants peeking through the water of her small plot growing in the fertile soil of eastern England.

This morning, President Trump unilaterally launched a regime-change war against Nicolšs Maduro of Venezuela,
ordering strikes on multiple military targets in the country and seizing its leader and his wife.
They were “captured and flown out of the country,” Trump stated on Truth Social.
“They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts,” Attorney General Pam Bondi stated,
in something like an inversion of the notion that jus…

Trump’s Risky War in Venezuela
By going around Congress, the president is showing contempt for the will of the public.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Hex Girlfriend:
🎵 Get It Together (Soil To The Sun)
#HexGirlfriend
https://open.spotify.com/track/7pdnDQIjbTWY7ZACgVD6xB

Stephen Miller has amassed unprecedented power for a deputy White House chief of staff.
He exerts extraordinary influence over an unusually large swath of the government,
from immigration to criminal justice to even the military’s operations on American soil
❌Much of what defines public life in the Trump era
—masked kidnappings on U.S. streets,
standoffs between ICE goons and protesters,
military patrols in U.S. cities
—has been authored by Miller.

Stephen Miller Is The New Republic’s 2025 Scoundrel of the Year
He was counting on a nation of haters. He was wrong.

"How an invasion of purple flowers made Iceland an Instagram paradise – and caused a biodiversity crisis"
#Iceland #Environment #Biodiversity

Not the first thought that comes to mind, but this is an #environmental problem, not just about skiing or a local economy:
"Ropes once used to mark out the piste hang in tatters and bits of plastic are falling off a pylon. The old sheds at each end of the ski lifts often still contain transformers, asbestos, motor oils and greases. Over time, these substances seep into the soil and…

Not the first thought that comes to mind, but this is an #environmental problem, not just about skiing or a local economy:
"Ropes once used to mark out the piste hang in tatters and bits of plastic are falling off a pylon. The old sheds at each end of the ski lifts often still contain transformers, asbestos, motor oils and greases. Over time, these substances seep into the soil and…

🫧 Peatlands' 'huge reservoir' of carbon at risk of release, researchers warn
#peat…

Peatlands' 'huge reservoir' of carbon at risk of release, researchers warn
Peatlands make up just 3% of Earth's land surface but store more than 30% of the world's soil carbon, preserving organic matter and sequestering its carbon for tens of thousands of years. A new study sounds the alarm that an extreme drought event could quadruple peatland carbon loss in a warming climate.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
J.A.M. String Collective:
🎵 A Fistful of Soil
#JAMStringCollective #newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/4LbZTmgM2s8HKzx7myWlFt

"How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health"
#Education #Children #Environment

🚜 California farmland doused with 2.5 million pounds of PFAS pesticides each year, analysis finds
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/11/california-farmland-doused-with-2-5-million-pounds-of-pfas-pesticides-each-y…

California farmland doused with 2.5 million pounds of PFAS pesticides each year, analysis finds - The New Lede
Farm fields in California, the largest US agricultural state, are sprayed each year with an average of 2.5 million pounds of pesticides containing toxic PFAS, potentially exposing millions of people to the chemicals through contaminated food, soil and drinking water, according to a new analysis of state regulatory data.

"‘A win for nature and people’: Elizabeth line soil used to create Essex bird haven"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Birds #Essex

"Scientists Create Durable Biodegradable Bamboo Plastic That’s Stronger Than Petroleum-Based Materials"
#Bamboo #Plastic #Plastics

Scientists Create Durable Biodegradable Bamboo Plastic That’s Stronger Than Petroleum-Based Materials | Happy Eco News
Chinese researchers created biodegradable bamboo plastic with 110 MPa tensile strength that decomposes in soil within 50 days. Published in Nature Communications (October 2025), the material outperforms petroleum-based plastics in terms of strength and stability, while maintaining 90% of its original strength after recycling. This makes it a renewable and recyclable alternative for industrial use.