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Precise information about agricultural soils is key to managing them more efficiently and sustainably. Researchers at the ...

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Nitrate, pesticides, metals and plastic agricultural soils often contain pollutants. But are there sustainable and ...

What’s in a word? Well, if it’s the word dirt or soil, it turns out, it’s a lot. While most people, myself included, often ...

The soil carbon monitoring programme started in 2023 to determine how much carbon is stored in forest and grassland soils, ...

HUMUS decomposition under bare fallow has now been measured during five successive wet and dry seasons. Soil samples were taken periodically (about once a week during the wet season) and put in ...

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