"In #Sheffield there's a long history of industry...which has altered #soils & left lots of covered surfaces that are inhospitable to thriving tree populations. Yet there's also some large areas of remaining #ancientwoodland..."
"Access to trees and nature is a right, not a privilege, and this new tool really underlines the consequences of going without." Fran Halsall; Regather Cooperative
Hey #Compostodon! I've published the lastest Aerobic Digest, rounding up all the cool stuff about composting I've seen on the internet, plus a short update on my own heaps. Please enjoy and send to your composting buddies!
A new paper: "Estimation of Soil Surface Roughness Parameters Under Simulated Rainfall Using Spectral Reflectance (...)".
It investigates the changes of soil surface spectra under gradual smoothing caused by simulated rainfall and develops predictive models for estimating soil roughness parameters from the spectra.
"Marginal improvements to #agricultural#soils around the world would store enough #carbon to keep the world within 1.5C of global heating, new research suggests."
“Outside the f#arming sector, people do not understand how important soils are to the #climate,” said McGlade. “Changing farming could make soils carbon negative, making them absorb carbon, and reducing the cost of farming.”
"Properly designed solar installations can increase food #harvests, reduce the need for #irrigation, revive dying lakes, rescue #pollinators, restore #soils + cool overheated humans—all while producing more power than conventional solar arrays."
"In 1982, researchers @ the #FraunhoferInstitute for Solar Energy (ISE) in Germany proposed a... solution..."