Another important point of these sand banks is that when it rains, the rainwater soaks down into the soil.

Plants are nourished by earth.

The town had a vermiculite mine in it.

To change the community you have to change the composition of the soil.

I collect soil samples.

They began to understand that as the upper levels of the hills were denuded of trees, so you've got this terrible soil erosion and mudslides.

Should aluminum be in the soil and the rain?

which is going to cause air pollution, water pollution,

living lamprey eel brain.

Worms are sometimes beneficial to soil.

The soil retained richness.

Plants take in water from the soil.

But what are the conditions that make it possible?

Water resources are running low.

I said, What can you build in this place?

Put this in the developer liquids.

The mangroves are being cut down the effects of things like the tsunami get worse.

We are after all organic creatures, and the culture of the school is absolutely essential.

The rain washed away the soil.

And these are not esoteric limits.

At this rate, all fish populations are projected to collapse by 2048.

They're good for the environment because they enable no till farming, which leaves the soil in place, getting healthier from year to year slso keeps less carbon dioxide going from the soil into the atmosphere.

That soil is rich in humus.

You can't get a tree to grow on bad soil.

Rich soil yields good crops.

And this is the concept for the top of the city.

Abiotic stress is the drought.

curiosity without assumptions.

She gets the women to plant new trees and water them, drop by drop.

Large scale use of pesticides and fertilizers raised concerns of soil pollution.

This was another site where it had been bare and eroding, and at the base of the marked small tree, we had lost over 30 centimeters of soil.

The mycelium infuses all landscapes, it holds soils together, it's extremely tenacious.

Can you imagine the potential offspring applications environmental detection of pollutants in soils, customs applications, detection of illicit goods in containers and so on.

Our farming has done the opposite.

living in land that is not that fertile, particularly when you cut down trees, and you leave the soil open to the wind for erosion, as desperate populations cut down more and more trees, so that they can try and grow food for themselves and their families, what's going to happen?

So we would take the landscape and we would build up the topography.

life creates conditions conducive to life.

When investigating the pH (acidic, neutral, alkaline) of a liquid, don't soak the litmus paper completely in the liquid but just put the end of the paper in it.

So the key now is to make it behave like tuna.

Then, if we added maps like the geology, the bedrock geology, and the surface geology, what the glaciers leave, if we make the soil map, with the 17 soil classes, that are defined by the National Conservation Service, if we make a digital elevation model of the topography that tells us how high the hills were, then we can calculate the slopes.

Nothing seems to grow in this soil.

We have a massive ozone hole in the Northern hemisphere now.

It's kind of hard to explain. I guess it's in the loam of the soil.

Now, you can make all the jokes you want about cow farts, but methane is 20 times more poisonous than CO2, and it's not just methane.

And inside these wells, then microbial communities begin to form.