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Vital soil saving techniques being trialled as International Year of Soils comes to end
2015-12-06 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: As World Soil Day on 5th December 2015 marks the ending of the International Year of Soils, it is reassuring to know that scientists will still be working to find solutions to protect our soils. 2015 was declared International Year of Soils by the United Nations in order to raise awareness of the profound importance of soil for human life[i]. As well as providing us with food and fibre, soils can also play an important role in climate change mitigation by storing carbon and decreasing greenhouse...
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Food at COP21: 3 initiatives spotlight food insecurity, soils, waste
2015-12-04 14:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Its become a catch-22 of our times: the global food system is both a villain and a victim of climate change. Agriculture accounts for almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, and yet floods, drought, and the planets increasing climatic variability play with the fate of our food. Continuing on the current climate trajectory will mean a future of profound food insecurity, especially for developing nations. This week, these concerns have been prominent on the agenda at the COP21 climate...
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Chapter 18: Soils and Foundation Requirements for Prefabricated Structures - OSSC/18/#1 - 9/1/15
2015-09-03 22:17:03| PortlandOnline
PDF Document, 117kbCategory: Engineering - OSSC Chapters 16-23
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DEQ makes suggestions for contaminated soils cleanup - Friday, 28 August 2015 11:23
2015-08-28 20:47:03| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has a variety of options to clean up a Sherwood site contaminated with animal hides that were discarded more than four decades ago. On Aug. 27, DEQ officials held a meeting to lay out potential solutions to cleaning up what's known as the Ken Foster Farm site.
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Pile-Driving and Poor Soils Prompt Indiana I-65 Shutdown
2015-08-24 01:04:55| ENR.com: Headline News
Pile-driving adjacent to an Interstate 65 bridge near Lafayette, Ind., appears to have started a subterranean chain reaction that left one of the structures riverbank piers skewed out of alignment, forcing a 37-mile closure of the northbound lanes that could extend into mid-September.
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