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War is undermining soil health and availability more than urbanisation
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168124 Ever since the Earth has witnessed the dawn of mankind it has had to deal with conflicts and their consequences. The number of ongoing conflicts continues to increase year by year, as does the power of the weapons at stake. ...
The need to classify moon soils: Proposal for a first step for planetary pedology
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8123381 For the Moon, we propose to use characteristics of the lunar regolith such as the Is/FeO maturity index of Morris and the agglutinate content as a first attempt to differentiate soil horizons. ...
Recycling phosphorus from agricultural streams: grey and green solutions
https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12122938 Many intensively farmed soils show high phosphorus (P) contents compared to the thresholds required for agricultural production; 0.084 Mt of P year−1 is leaving the European terrestrial system. ...
The crucial interactions between climate and soil
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159169 • Climate is a soil-forming factor but the climate is in turns affected by soils. • The corpus of researches on feedbacks between soil and climate has increased a lot in recent years. ...
An early beginning of citizen science
https://doi.org/10.3390/adolescents1030018 Two 1980s projects, involving 2600 students, 80 teachers, 15 scientists and 20 stakeholders are discussed. We added recent survey data from speaking with the former participants. ...
Relief and calcium from gypsum as key factors for net inorganic carbon accumulation in soils of a semiarid Mediterranean environment
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021. ...
Soil is the best testifier of the diachronous dawn of the Anthropocene
https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.202000481 Humans act at worldwide scale as a growing geomorphic agent since mid‐Holocene (8,200–4,200 y BP) through the pervasive impacts of domestication, deforestation, agriculture, urbanization, and mining. ...
Outlook from the soil perspective of urban expansion and food security
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05860 The use of soil as support for built-up areas represents only one of its several functions. ...
How many grams of plastics are used to grow a strawberry?
Strawberry fields forever: That is, how many grams of plastics are used to grow a strawberry? Behind a typical 250-gram basket of strawberries, the production process has generated more than 20 g of plastic waste, consisting of different polymers DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111313
Disambiguating the soils of Mars
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2020.104922 Anticipated human missions to Mars require a methodical understanding of the unconsolidated bulk sediment that mantles its surface, given its role as an accessible resource for water and as a probable substrate for food production. ...
Connecting existing cemeteries saving good soils (for livings)
Urban sprawl consumes and degrades productive soils worldwide. Fast and safe decomposition of corpses requires high-quality functional soils, and land use which competes with both agriculture and buildings. ...
A Contract for the Web
https://contractfortheweb.org/draft-07-2019/ Principi per un Contratto per il Web Il web è stato progettato per riunire le persone e rendere la conoscenza liberamente disponibile. Ognuno ha un ruolo in cui operare per garantire che il web sia utile all’umanità. ...
Each soil deserves a name
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b03050 Contrary to other things of the natural world, such as plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and even rocks, inexplicably soils are seldom mentionedwith their specific name in the scientific literature. ...
Governmentium (symbol=Gv)
Oxford University researchers have discovered the densest element yet known to science The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. ...
A new Italian manifesto against racism
As an interdisciplinary team that includes biological and cultural anthropologists, we have issued a manifesto for education in human diversity and unity. ...
Soil REE patterns as tracers of the emplacement of metal-rich anthropogenic materials. A case study in Moa (Cuba)
All readers of this article via the shared link will also be able to use Enhanced PDF features such as annotation tools, one-click supplements, citation file exports and article metrics. https://rdcu.be/bn7Ak
Annuario dei dati ambientali 2018 - Arpa Sicilia
Disponibile l’Annuario regionale di dati ambientali di Arpa Sicilia. Arrivato alla tredicesima edizione, presenta una sintesi dei dati e delle informazioni prodotte dell’Agenzia: https://www.snpambiente.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Annuario2018.pdf
Resource or waste? A perspective of plastics degradation in soil with a focus on end-of-life options
This review collects existing information on plastics in the soil, paying particular attention to both their degradation and possible re-uses. The use of plastics in agriculture is also considered. ...
The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions
Seth Wynes and Kimberly Nicholas have identified four recommended actions which we believe to be especially effective in reducing an individual’s greenhouse gas emissions: having one fewer child, living car-free, avoiding airplane travel, and eating a plant-based diet. ...
adobe house with 3D printer
An example of the use of raw soil as the main binder of the constituent mixture combined with by-products materials coming from the rice production chain: https://www.3dwasp.com/casa-stampata-in-3d-gaia/
Living in the Age of Humans
https://arcg.is/08Xij1 A series of story maps examining the planet-wide impacts of human activities
Anthropogenic soils as the marker - Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809665-9.10024-2 This article aims to support the Anthropogenic soils, the ones markedly affected by human activities, as the most meaningful marker for the onset of the Anthropocene. ...
Beyond Earth: can we classify Martian soils with WRB?
l.ead.me/bavICZ To classify Martian soils, the current version of WRB (IUSS Working Group WRB, 2015) needs to be adjusted given the uniformly cold and arid Martian climate. ...
Cibo senza suolo?
[https://youtu.be/w77zPAtVTuI Bean Time-Lapse - 25 days | Soil cross section] “Perché preoccuparsi del suolo quando il futuro della produzione alimentare sarà fatto in industrie/fattorie dentro edifici chiusi e ipercontrollati?”. ...
Memi Usai
https://www.architettura.aho.uniss.it/it/avvisi/ricordo-della-nostra-maria-raimonda-memi-usai In ricordo della stimata collega “Memi” Usai, docente in Geoarcheologia applicata alla pianificazione territoriale presso l'Università di Sassari.
The contamination legacy of a decommissioned iron smelter
The economically important activity of metal processing can tend to contribute to the degradation of the environment. Smelting is an important source of contaminants, dispersing large quantities of potentially toxic elements (PTE) and coproducts into the environment. ...
All the beauty of Italy from the Space Station
Filmed with a RED Dragon camera aboard the International Space Station by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli on 29 August 2017, the video is shown in real time as the ISS flew over Italy. https://youtu.be/uYbaGm6TdDI
Soil is life!
Video of the soil event held on the 5th Dec 2017 at the Italian Institute of Culture in Brussels and organised by the Save the Lanscape Forum
I beni confiscati in Italia
La mappa interattiva si basa sui dati di OpenRegio dell'ANBSC ed è sincronizzata con i dataset aggregati (comuni, province, regioni). ...
COMMISSIONE PARLAMENTARE DI INCHIESTA SULLE ATTIVITÀ ILLECITE CONNESSE AL CICLO DEI RIFIUTI E SU ILLECITI AMBIENTALI
RELAZIONE TERRITORIALE SULLA REGIONE SICILIANA https://goo.gl/3UwE1g Relazione territoriale sulla Regione siciliana (XXIII, n. 20, 19 luglio 2016) Camera https://goo.gl/gj4gTd, Senato https://goo.gl/BvebHD