Why do some people eat soil? From a prisoner’s lifeline to a modern tasting menu, the history of geophagy

When I ask people if they have ever eaten soil before, they tend to give me a strange look. But geophagy – the deliberate ...
Chromatography Online

Optimizing HSSE-GC-MS and Machine Learning for Forensic Gender Classification from Human Scent

Researchers have optimized a headspace sorptive extraction (HSSE) method coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry ...
Yahoo

Scientists Are Trying to Resurrect Ancient Forests to Battle Climate Change

One of the major pushes to protect biodiversity while increasing the planet’s ability to store carbon is to revert unused farmlands to woodlands, and eventually, mature forests. However, that’s easier ...
Frontiers

Nonlinear threshold responses and spatial heterogeneity of soil organic carbon under contrasting pedoclimatic regimes

Soil organic carbon (SOC) constitutes the largest terrestrial carbon pool, storing approximately 1,500 Pg of carbon in the top meter of soil and playing a key role in regulating climate-carbon ...
housedigest

Simple 2 Ingredient Fertilizers For Healthy Plants And Soil

While synthetic fertilizers are filled with complicated ingredients that most of us can't pronounce, said ingredients may not be as beneficial to the soil in our gardens as much as we'd like to think.
SciELO

Map of total phosphorus content in native soils of Brazil

soil native P; legacy P; soil total P; agriculture expansion Estimated total P content by stepwise versus measured total P content in the topsoil (0-30 cm) all over Brazil. In step 1 for the ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Yerima, B.P.K. and Van Ranston, E. (2005) Major Soil Classification System Used in the Tropics: Soils of Cameroon. Trafford Publication.

ABSTRACT: Mountains are home to 50% of global biodiversity hotspots and support nearly a quarter of the world’s forests and terrestrial biological diversity. This study aims to evaluate the floristic ...
IEEE

Soil Texture Classification Based on Deep Learning Networks and Multi-Source Remote Sensing Images

Abstract: To address the inefficiency and limited applicability of traditional soil texture analysis methods, this study proposes a soil texture classification approach integrating multi-source remote ...
IEEE

Mapping Coastal Soil Salinity and Vegetation Dynamics Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data Fusion With Machine Learning Techniques

Abstract: Coastal regions are vulnerable ecosystems where monitoring soil salinity and vegetation coverage dynamics is critical for environmental management and conservation. This study introduces a ...