Word: soils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vegetation of a tropical rain forest -perhaps the most luxuriant vegetation in all the world-stands on soil that is almost worthless for growing food crops...
...enemy. Rain can be just as devastating. When the spring rains came to Ethiopia this March, they broke all known records. Ten inches fell in some sections in three days (compared with one-tenth inch last spring). The torrents washed away vital crops and thousands of tons of top soil. In Wallo province, worst hit by the famine, the deluge swept away villages and roads, overturned supply trucks and dangerously delayed relief efforts...
...ensure the survival of some species over long periods of drought and temperature extremes, nature has produced organisms that can exist many years in suspended animation. Last week two scientists announced that in soil samples taken from deep below the surface of Antarctica, they found frozen bacteria that may be anywhere from 10,000 to 1 million years old. When incubated, some of the bacteria not only returned to life but also reproduced...
...Dana Point, Calif., had been working for the past three years on a project aimed at evaluating the environmental impact of deep drilling on Antarctica. As part of their work, they regularly analyzed the material brought up by the drills to determine what surface contaminants had seeped into the soil. Some experiments conducted on cores taken from layers of soil, rock and ice that had been laid down between 10,000 and 1 million years ago produced startling results. Several samples taken from the Ross Island core-one from a depth of 1,260 ft. -contained rod-shaped bacteria...
...Blotner should have realized from the beginning and what Faulkner himself often said--that the life of the man could be found in the work of the mind (but not the reverse) and that the best understanding of Faulkner comes from reading about that small postage stamp of native soil, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, of which he was sole owner and proprietor...