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Researchers find ways to turn manure into power

...posted manure samples from the paved pens than the dirt pens ?20.2 percent compared to 58.7 percent. As a result, the low-ash manure had about twice the organic matter and heating value, he said. "The low-ash feedlot biomass would be much better fuel than high-ash feedlot biomass," Sweeten said. "The pro...

Amazonian terra preta can transform poor soil into fertile

...r uses low-intensity smoldering fires covered with dirt and straw, for example, which partially exclude oxygen. Slash-and-burn, which is commonly used in many parts of the world to prepare fields for crops, releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Slash-and-char, on the other hand, actually reduces...

GPSDB, the free Gene and Protein Synonyms DataBase

...r uses low-intensity smoldering fires covered with dirt and straw, for example, which partially exclude oxygen. Slash-and-burn, which is commonly used in many parts of the world to prepare fields for crops, releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Slash-and-char, on the other hand, actually reduces...

Researchers use dirt to stay one step ahead of antibiotic resistance

...ty researchers say that study of bacteria found in dirt may be the key in identifying how and why antibiotic resistance happens in bacteria that infect people, predicting future clinical problems, and testing new antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance has become an increasing public health concern because th...

Fire ants: Their true story told by the scientist who loves them

..." he said. Other fun facts center on the familiar dirt mound around which smart humans cut a wide swath; it's actually a solarium that collects heat to warm its residents. The tunnels below it hold anywhere from a few dozen to several hundred thousand of the highly territorial critters (Tschinkel has cou...

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