To better know their carbon footprint, a group of Australian landowners are doing their own calculations on what climate change could mean for them. They're looking at ways to improve yields and efficiency in their respective industries while lowerin

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Even the dirt on the ground is likely making climate change worse, a new study finds. Researchers have shown that warmer temperatures are heating the soil, which is causing microbes to become more active and release more of the soils carbon into the

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新托福写作范文素材:种树与保护环境 1 While you probably think about planting trees for Arbor Day, you may not know justhow much of an impact tree planting can have on your lawn and energy consumption as well as the environment. Trees

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It seemed like a good ideabecause rivers and ponds in Bangladesh were contaminated with bacteria, Bangladeshis switched to wells. But soon after, in the early 80s, researchers realized those wells were harming Bangladeshis with a new poisonarsenic. T

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AGRICULTURE REPORT - Study Points to Risk in Common Method of Enriching Soil By Jerilyn Watson / Broadcast: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:00:00 UTC This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For more than half a century, many farmers worldwide have a

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Pioneering Soil Researcher Wins Top Environment Prize Biologist Diana Wall went to the ends of the earth - the seemingly lifeless Antarctic desert - to study the life in soil. What soil life does for us, it provides us with many benefits that we don'

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