Children generally pick up lead in soil that has been contaminated by air pollution and dumping.
The specific bacterium responsible, Clostridium novyi Type A is found in soil and animal droppings.
Pseudomonas is a tough strain of bacteria that is found widely in soil and stagnant water.
Agricultural scientists are increasingly aware of slow, irreversible trends in soil and climate deterioration.
And now, for the first time in centuries, grapevines are taking root in soil that was once considered infertile.
Indicator organisms are bacteria which are found in soil and water and in the faeces of animals.
It published on Monday, for the first time, environmental quality standards setting acceptable limits for contaminants in soil.
The seeds of a new economy are sort of in the ground but not quite covered in soil.
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Dr Abrahamson believes that ball-lightning forms when a conventional lightning strike vaporises carbon and silicon oxides found in soil.
The problem is that they are planting these seeds in soil that is too dry or infertile to grow them.
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The specific bacterium identified by scientists as being responsible, Clostridium novyi Type A, is found in soil and animal droppings.
The main problem with producing clear images of things buried in soil, she says, is getting enough energy in and out.
Researchers at Kansas State University are creating precise maps of nitrogen deficiencies in soil to help farmers apply fertilizer where it is needed most.
Some elevated levels have been found in soil samples 25 miles northwest of the plant, although no plans were reported to expand the safety zone.
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Capable of resolutions better than 0.1mm - the diameter of a human hair - it allows archaeologists to carefully examine material while still encased in soil.
They will use a bacterial agent that occurs naturally in soil and is authorised for the operation by Natural England, the government's advisor on the natural environment.
They are chemical variants of an antibiotic called rapamycin, which Wyeth researchers found in soil samples from Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean in the late 1960s.
Microarrays also obtain genetic information from microbes in soil or water, and while less quantitative than qPCR, this method can analyze tens of thousands of genes at once.
Radioecologist Nick Beresford from Centre of Ecology and Hydrology in Lancaster explained that once in soil, caesium will become bound to mineral components, which limits its uptake into plants.
But without thinking in advance and making use of modern science, authorities in almost all countries in the East as well as in the West burry waste in soil.
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But such is their persistence that they can also be found in soil, sediment, food, air and house dust, and 97% of Americans have detectable levels in their bodies.
The problem at present, he says, is that North Korean farmers plant too many poor-quality seeds in a desperate attempt to boost crops, and do so in soil that is becoming increasingly less fertile.
Until the 20th Century, the nutrient element only came to Earth in a reactive form that is usable by plants and animals, thanks to certain microbes in soil and water (and to a smaller extent in lightning strikes).
"It will be neutralised by nature, because of rain which will dilute it and because of the chances that it will come into contact with slightly acidic substances in soil... but that will take a little time, " he says.
There have been several anecdotal reports of leprosy in humans who have handled, killed or eaten armadillos, or who may have been indirectly exposed by gardening in soil where the animals burrow, as was the case for Abide's patient.
The episode is known as the Younger Dryas, because in Scandinavia abundant pollen from a tundra flower called the mountain avens, Dryas octopetala, reappears in soil from this date, indicating that the forest had once more given way to tundra.
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Spirit's mission ended after getting caught in soft soil in 2009 and succumbing to the Martian winter.
Over a two-year experiment, we saw that there was a change in the soil structure as a result of a wetting and drying of the soil in clay-rich soils, and that can increase the amount of structure and hence storage of water.
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