There isn't enough topsoil to sustain agricultural production; at its current rate, topsoil will be depleted in a few decades and lead to mass starvation.
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Iowa right now is losing topsoil at 16 times the
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The ship was hidden beneath just 1.6 feet of topsoil.
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Its roots are tangled in the topsoil, rather than running deep.
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Beneath the mystery topsoil lies a treasure trove of rich, engaging characters.
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We have great topsoil in this country and wouldn't dream of exporting it.
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Topsoil (free on both the App Store and Google Play) starts simply enough.
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Large plastic bags filled with radioactive topsoil and detritus dot the abandoned fields.
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Their myths live on long after their withered bodies are covered in topsoil.
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Then they scrape away the shallow layer of leafy, peaty topsoil called muskeg.
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Beneath this mystery topsoil, however, lies a treasure trove of rich, engaging characters.
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The denuded landscape allowed winds to blow off the topsoil, and fertility fell sharply.
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Healthy topsoil is the foundation of a healthy food system and a healthy planet.
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Arizona's topsoil layer doesn't have strong ideological positions on gun control or climate change.
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They plant things in thin topsoil; they only rarely get to watch them grow.
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Topsoil has been blown away by the terrible, strong winds this spring and summer.
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While the sun may dry out topsoil, deep roots can reach water deposits farther underground.
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The rock, lack of topsoil and mountains of vegetation made shaping the course nearly impossible.
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There's a climate component to this industrialization of our agricultural systems, it's destroying our topsoil.
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But heavy rain often washes away the topsoil, environmentalists say, rendering the steep land useless.
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But if the British layer was but a topsoil, India's Muslim past was another matter.
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Dredging riverbeds for the mud to produce the new bricks will help preserve topsoil, Sadeque said.
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Conventional wisdom holds that it takes perhaps hundreds of years for carbon-rich topsoil to accumulate.
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Then a 20-year-old bulldozer driver, he began scraping topsoil that records show contained plutonium.
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They've mowed and removed topsoil from lawns, and used high-pressure washers to clean buildings and roads.
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The notion that the monuments were about Jim Crow "doesn't get beneath the topsoil," Martin told me.
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Soil Stewardship There's a climate component to this industrialization of our agricultural systems, it's destroying our topsoil.
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Cultivating treeless, steep mountainsides for agriculture, a common practice, is environmentally damaging and allows topsoil to wash out.
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The rain bounces off the parched ground taking along the topsoil, straight back into the rivers and oceans.
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The USF researchers will remove topsoil from the ground for analysis and then test and excavate by hand.
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While tea growers cannot control the weather, they can adapt with farming practices that protect and revive topsoil.
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Cover crops fix nitrogen in the soil and sequester rainwater, preventing runoff and holding the topsoil in place.
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In the 1930s they whipped its over-tilled topsoil up into the billowing black blizzards of the Dust Bowl.
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We also need to transform food-production technologies away from industrial agriculture toward regenerative-farming practices that rebuild topsoil.
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The ship is resting just 20 inches (50 centimeters) below the topsoil, and it's around 66 feet (20 meters) long.
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But it wasn't topsoil that caught the eye of industry—it was Elwood's serendipitous proximity to the country's major infrastructure.
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The drawings were made by the ancient culture by removing the rocky black topsoil, which revealed light-colored sand underneath.
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But with the fire burning so hot in the creek catchment, there was little vegetation regrowth to hold the topsoil.
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She is at work on a collection of essays about her native Iowa, on topsoil, caucus season and other topics.
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The main form of degradation is soil erosion - the loss of the topsoil by wind, rain or excessive use of machinery.
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In some ways we can, although changing climates are tightening resources (water, topsoil) in ways that were never a problem before.
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The work requires removing topsoil that contain cesium, a radioactive material with a half-life of 30 years, from vast fields.
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But in reality, the layer of topsoil that holds them up is absurdly thin, only about three feet deep or so.
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In the 1950s, Moses used garbage to further expand the area's land, but for some reason covered it with only topsoil.
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Buy organic because, with chemical agriculture, we are doing irrevocable damage to topsoil, pollinators, oceans and rivers due to chemical runoff.
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The ground at the "Eden" site was too poor to grow crops, so a helicopter flew in a hundred tons of topsoil.
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"It washed away our greenhouses, all of our topsoil, and my family was forced to stop farming for a living," she says.
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I field phone calls from my husband, calling from Agway or Ace, on a mission to acquire topsoil, grass seed, a hose.
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The lie being perpetuated was an order of reality that was quite simply eviscerating the topsoil of existence as we knew it.
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Eventually there were almost no trees left, and the loose topsoil blew in dirt storms that kicked up with every gust of wind.
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There are three types of tile in Topsoil, and when a plant is harvested the tile beneath it changes to the next type.
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Her campaign has consisted mainly of the giant Trump logo across her topsoil field, the length of one and a half football fields.
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But in January, after removing a layer of topsoil, archeologists saw a "dark, long feature ... that had wood in it," according to Halley.
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Years earlier, the EPA had already cleaned up several area yards where topsoil testing detected lead levels exceeding 1,200 parts per million, ppm.
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While visiting Fukushima, founder of Environmental Progress, Michael Shellenberger challenged the Japanese government's colossal efforts to remove thousands of tons of "contaminated" topsoil.
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Gathering in a circle around the umu, a woman grabbed a spade and uncovered the topsoil, revealing the first layer of banana leaves.
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Disinterments typically start the same way — a backhoe quickly clears the topsoil — but each exhumation is unique, depending on the condition of the corpse.
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When the region gets hammered with monsoon rains, Koehler told me, the water washes away topsoil and its nutrients and damages the bush itself.
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The results are all too evident: perennial streams are now ephemeral, and massive quantities of topsoil silt up dams and flow into the oceans.
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And in the meantime we had to transport hundreds of tons of good topsoil so that everything would turn out as I had dreamed.
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Without help, some experts say, the areas they leave behind — robbed of all topsoil and loaded with mercury — could take 22014 years to recover.
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During high water, topsoil, gravel and woody debris are washed into new sites downriver and below ground, fostering new habitats and new plant communities.
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Residents in affected areas should avoid tracking dirt into homes, wash children's hands often, and place clean topsoil in spots testing high, he said.
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They have stripped the landscape of 600 million cubic feet of grass, trees, and topsoil and stuffed it into millions of black tarp bags.
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Dig beneath the topsoil of "this supposedly hard-headed country", advises Zwagerman, and you hit a contradictory layer of "contemplative arch-romantics" and "reserved iconoclasts".
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Indonesia, a large producer, stopped exports because of the damage that mining causes—it requires stripping vast amounts of topsoil and battering the ground beneath.
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The topsoil is thick with leaves that have turned a morbid, corpse-like grey (as Ms Brown recounts, radiation impedes the natural process of decomposition).
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They cut down broad swaths of jungle, sifting through perhaps 21 tons of topsoil to find enough flecks of gold for a single wedding ring.
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Two years ago, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation estimated the topsoil of the planet could only support about 60 more years of harvests.
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The Trump campaign has been like a flash flood that sweeps away the topsoil and both reveals and widens the chasms, crevices and cracks below.
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Arsenic has been the most widespread chemical contaminant — the army has carted off thousands of tons of tainted soil and replaced it with clean topsoil.
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But, as might be expected of a lean little puzzle game, the simplicity of Topsoil can unravel very quickly for all but the most deliberate gardeners.
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Human activities, mainly those involving agriculture and urbanization, have destroyed or degraded topsoil, forests, and other natural vegetation and water resources nearly everywhere, the report found.
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This in part because soils deteriorate with the loss of plant cover, as the sun's rays bake the ground and as rains wash away important topsoil.
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And yet, the space gave the impression of being tidy and well-swept, not unlike a Dust Bowl kitchen if the prairie topsoil had been Technicolor.
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And once the crust of the land is removed in the strip-mining process, topsoil can become airborne dust and cover snow on nearby mountain ridges.
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Today, one never knows when the rains will come, continue, or end abruptly, and they now fall in torrents that wash away topsoil and cause landslides.
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Architects and scientists now envision subdividing Mars with compounds of thick-walled living pods, made by 3-D printers with ingredients like ice and regolith topsoil.
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Stripped of its vegetation, sandy topsoil is now filling a nearby creek and an adjoining freshwater pool where he and other rural families draw drinking water.
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And the water that ran off it during a rainstorm was clear, a sign that the roots of the cover crops were anchoring valuable topsoil in place.
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The weather patterns in Darjeeling have changed, topsoil has eroded, rainfall is erratic, landslides are more frequent, and the region has been hit by long, dry spells.
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Storms washed away not only newly planted grain—which was already scarce, because farmers had begun eating their seed corn to survive—but also topsoil and dikes.
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They are filled with contaminated earth; as part of the cleanup, a layer of topsoil is being scraped up from gardens, schoolyards, and fields all across the region.
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The building that contained the chamber was demolished years ago and Iran made extensive efforts to clean the site by removing topsoil and covering the area with Tarmac.
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The country had few resources, and erosion was carrying away vast amounts of topsoil while an annual population increase of about 19743 percent created more mouths to feed.
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Proponents of phytomining see the greatest potential in Indonesia and the Philippines, two of the world's biggest nickel ore producers, where hundreds of mines shovel topsoil into smelters.
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"We'd learn about huge problems like rising greenhouse gas emissions or topsoil collapse, but there wasn't much focus on what students could actually do about it," she said.
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In the Black Belt, named for its rich topsoil, but now a region of widespread rural poverty, people still wonder whether once-plentiful jobs will ever come back.
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How do we as white people now, make room for truths and stories to rise that have long been silenced, buried by years and years of seasons building topsoil.
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Throughout the film (which is beautifully shot by Rachel Morrison, and worth seeing in a theater if you can) there's a feeling of a layer of topsoil having shifted.
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It takes scalping the topsoil (destroying the ancient forest) and 30 percent of the tar's energy to drive the chemical process that turns black "asphaltene" into useable yellow oil.
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The Earth supports industrialized standards of living only because we are drawing down the "savings account" of non-renewable resources, including fertile topsoil, drinkable water, forests, fisheries and petroleum.
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The team also installed various lenses on the cameras to capture ultraviolet and infrared spectrums, revealing heat below ground and details in the topsoil invisible to the naked human eye.
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The young activist fought back tears as she spoke about a wide range of topics: an increasing extinction rate, fertile topsoil erosion, deforestation, air pollution, insect loss and ocean acidification.
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"We have replaced the last of the topsoil and have seeded the impacted area," Tysver said in an email sent to the American News late Friday evening, the paper said.
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The company had resisted the obvious, expensive solution — clearcutting the land for the dam's reservoir and stripping the topsoil before flooding, which removes the buildup of methylmercury in organic matter.
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They want Nalcor, the government-owned utility building the dam, to dig up and cart away most of the topsoil that would be covered by the 40-mile-long reservoir.
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Industrialized agriculture is depleting our nation's topsoil at such an extreme rate, experts warn we have fewer than 60 harvests left if we don't shift to more sustainable farming practices.
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Due to mining for guano — excrement from animals like birds, which can be used as a fertilizer — the landscape of the island had been devastated, losing both vegetation and topsoil.
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DEUTSCH-WAGRAM, Austria —Just under the topsoil of the farm fields in this small town northeast of Vienna, there are traces of one of the biggest battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
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About a third of the world's soils are degraded because of soil erosion - the loss of the topsoil by wind, rain or use of machinery - contamination and the sprawl of cities.
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Finally, early in the morning hours of October 270, several sheriff's deputies arrived at the hemp farm with a search warrant for "Marijuana/hemp" and uprooted the hemp plants and topsoil.
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They assume that chemical agents that had leached into the topsoil and sand were kicked up by the helicopters' rotor wash, pelting their skin and permeating the air they were breathing.
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After the installation, the structure will be dismantled and spread as a new layer of topsoil for Socrates Sculpture Park, a gift from Webster to the park for its 30th anniversary.
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The practice of seeding fields between harvests not only keeps topsoil in place, it also adds carbon to the soil and helps the beneficial microbes, fungus, bacteria and worms in it thrive.
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If you're one of the few individuals who felt destined to plant the Google Glass flag into the topsoil of some unexplored technological tundra, Google's just left you out in the cold.
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According to Mohammad Abu Sadeque, head of the Dhaka-based Housing and Building Research Institute, meeting this demand requires excavating 60 million tonnes of topsoil, causing dust pollution and degrading the ground.
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EPA's sampling found that 50 percent of the West Calumet homes tested had lead in their topsoil exceeding 1,200 parts per million, or three times the federal "hazard" level for residential areas.
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Cleanup of the tainted site required the removal and replacement of 2 meters (6 feet) of topsoil, construction of retaining walls, pumping out of polluted ground water and an injection of fresh water.
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Hughes admits that plutonium topsoil contamination could still make these atolls unfit for life, and he intends to return to the Marshall Islands to study radiation levels in local fruit and fish populations.
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Sir Winston took to this grand old racetrack famed for its big, sweeping turns and a surface that is known as Big Sandy because its footing is more Jersey Shore than Kentucky topsoil.
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But that debris won't reveal much about the asteroid's geological history, just as the topsoil in your yard won't tell you much about what your neighborhood was like during the last ice age.
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But as loggers move in, environmental activists say their clearcutting allows vital topsoil to wash away, weakening the ability of the earth to hold extra moisture -- and making the region vulnerable to flooding.
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One of their first efforts interpreted that commitment quite literally: For "Making Earth" (19943-70), Mr. Harrison made topsoil in the parking lot of their studio, and Ms. Harrison used it to grow plants.
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Every summer, somewhere in the tropical north, a cyclone generates enough rain to inundate the low-lying suburbs of coastal towns, decimate banana crops and wash topsoil and fertilizers onto the Great Barrier Reef.
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Something is causing the greenery of the swamp to turn hostile, growing and twisting and reaching with rapid determination to tear through flesh and erupt through bodies like a super-powered sapling erupting through topsoil.
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She did her best to establish new plantings, importing about 200 tons of topsoil, and Julian spent a lot of time clearing the mount of the invasive weed petasites, to the detriment of his knees.
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Now you've also got to remove several inches of topsoil and destroy the original material and rebuild it from scratch if you want people to be able to live there without increasing the cancer rates.
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The dry periods prompt desperate people to deforest hillsides for wood for cooking or to sell, but they are now followed by increasingly violent rains, which then easily wash away the topsoil barren of trees.
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Extreme weather events have rocked the American Midwest in recent years and hit particularly hard in 2019, drowning agricultural acreage nearly the size of South Carolina and washing away the topsoil that makes land fertile.
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"This is ultra-sustainable because we're producing soil while producing the most nutrient-dense food that grows well in this area," Macaulay says, noting that there is roughly 60 years' worth of topsoil remaining in the world.
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The thick prairie sod of America's Great Plains was a rich carbon store until settlers tore it up for farms, leaving hundreds of millions of tons of topsoil to be blown away in the Dust Bowl years.
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Canada's prairies, home to about 80 percent of its farmland, were devastated by the same long-term "Dust Bowl" drought that hit the United States in the 1930s, leading to farm failures and huge losses of topsoil.
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"With dry topsoil, we are definitely more exposed to any sharp drop in temperatures," Romulo Lollato, Kansas State University extension wheat specialist, said of the dormant 2018 crop, noting that dry soil cools more quickly than moist soil.
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But Lynne Ryan, a topsoil farmer who lives near the Ohio border, wants to be a delegate to the Republican National Convention so badly she spray-painted a 183-foot-long "Trump" logo on one of her fields.
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About a third of the world's soils are degraded because of soil erosion - the loss of the topsoil by wind, rain or use of machinery - and other practices, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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Effortlessly blending club ready low-end dynamics with sadlad emotional topsoil, the pair produce the kind of pristine electro-pop that reminds us of other Kompakt classics like Heiko Voss' "I Think About You," or "Even Angels" by Superpitcher.
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The Dust Bowl was a defining moment in 28500th Century American economic history, when a combination of drought and poor farming practices in the mid-6900s destroyed the topsoil of thousands of farms throughout the Great Plains and Middle West.
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Lowndes County is part of the Black Belt—the swathe of land named for its fertile topsoil which produced vast amounts of cotton on the back of slave labour and, later, sharecropping, and where emancipated black workers farmed rented land.
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When a leak was discovered at a two-family townhouse in Hoboken that Mr. Heidenry built with his partner, Peter Slifirski, the 960-square-foot living roof had already been planted — with three pallets of topsoil, eight evergreens and nearly 3,000 sedum plugs.
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As archaeologists pick their way through the huge site, clearing topsoil with diggers and exhuming by hand those buried here, they are hoping to identify and rebury the boxer who transcended the raw racism of his age to emerge a sporting hero.
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" And not just any junkyard, Mr. Radi said, but one that for years had "festered like a wound," filled with old cars whose toxic fluids might leach into the topsoil or, even worse, he said, suddenly combust and spread "like wildfire into other people's homes.
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While the main sources of these pollutants, leaded gasoline and lead-based paint, are now strictly regulated, high levels persist in topsoil and get blown into the air as dust, potentially putting gardeners and children who play in the most contaminated gardens at risk.
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The area around Narcisse is so attractive to snakes for the same reasons many farmers abandoned it decades ago: Its thin topsoil sits on top of limestone that water has gradually eroded underground, creating a network of small caves that can be entered through sinkholes.
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The men were among the 26,000 workers — many in their 50s and 60s from the margins of society with no special skills or close family ties — tasked with removing the contaminated topsoil and stuffing it into tens of thousands of black bags lining the fields and roads.
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Among them: a big jump in jobs, resulting from expansion of local and regional healthy food networks (giving the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis "Harvesting Opportunity "credit for showing how to do it) and treating our disappearing topsoil as the infrastructure issue that it is.
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As a specialist in groundwater issues, Wampler knew that deforestation also contributed to poor water quality; trees help to lock in rich topsoil and act as a purifying filter, especially important in a country where about half of rural people do not have access to clean drinking water.
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With no understanding of crop rotation or erosion control, thousands of farmers had cultivated the land so intensely over so many years that two to five inches of topsoil had disappeared from more than 23 million acres, leaving the Plains open to the devastation of suddenly ferocious winds.
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Neither Henry nor Kelly have previous experience in working the land, but they devoured books and online tutorials about different gardening methods before settling on a version of the no-dig system — which involves planting directly into a topsoil of organic mulch — championed by the celebrated British horticulturalist Charles Dowding.
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When I got to Sweetwater around 1:30PM, enterprising guests were just starting to shift the topsoil off her resting place — and they were finding things in the dirt, like a samurai-embossed coin from Westworld's sister site, Shogun World, and a rolled-up copy of the horse painting Dolores creates on the show.
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RUSSIA Detail area JAPAN JAPAN Prefectures hardest hit by storm Tamura FUKUSHIMA Nagano SAITAMA NAGANO Tokyo Ichihara CHIBA Ito SHIZUOKA STORM MADE LANDFALL 25 miles By The New York Times The contents of the bags, which hold up to 1.3 tons, were unclear, but they are most likely filled with irradiated topsoil and other refuse from the cleanup that followed the meltdown.
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By the end of the month, 28500 percent or more of the topsoil was rated short or very short of moisture (dry or very dry) in New Mexico (6900%), California (2628%), Nevada (28503%), Oregon (22019%), and Idaho (61%), and 50 percent or more of the subsoil was rated short or very short of moisture in California (80%), Oregon (65%), Nevada (65%), Idaho (55%), New Mexico (85033%), and Wyoming (50%).
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And this requires a holistic vision of the future: one that acknowledges farmland as irreplaceable infrastructure we cannot afford to lose; that sees farming practices that retain topsoil and rebuild soil health as necessary if that land is going to serve us in perpetuity; and that views farmers as the stewards of that land, worthy of our fervent support — because, at heart, what these farmers do is for all of us.
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