Word: soils
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...give balance to the champagne produced there, says Gregory Jones, a climatologist at Southern Oregon University. "With such temperatures you could make a Burgundy or Bordeaux, rather than champagne," he says. Today southern England has roughly the same climate that Champagne did 25 years ago--and the same chalky soil in those famous white cliffs of Dover. French champagne houses are sniffing out land in England while it's still selling at a comparative discount to Champagne...
...planted roof usually comes in one of two varieties: extensive or intensive. The extensive type is wide and shallow, with a soil depth of less than 8 in. (20 cm), able to support smaller plants. The intensive type may be smaller, but it's deeper and home to larger plants. Whatever the design, green roofs are a lot more complicated than ordinary gardens. They have multiple layers beneath the soil, including a filter membrane, a drainage layer, waterproofing, insulation and structural support...
Modern agroindustrialists are perhaps even more admirable than the modest ploughmen of yore. They're still family farmers who like to play in the dirt--only 2% of our farms are corporate-owned--but they also have to be land managers, soil scientists, hydrologists, veterinarians, mechanics, commodity traders, exterminators, meteorologists and highly sophisticated businessmen. The question is, Why do they need our help when they're doing so well? Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, a former Nebraska farm boy who is running for Senate, put it this way in an interview hours before he announced his resignation: "Congratulations! We celebrate your...
...While A-Rod and Kobe soil their sports, Brady and Manning have dominated football's spotlight for all the right reasons. Their Sunday tilt is being billed Super Bowl XLII and a half, and for once it doesn't feel like hype. No two undefeated teams have met this late in the season (the Pats are 8-0, Colts 7-0), and the game will likely determine which team gets the crucial home-field advantage in the AFC playoffs (where the two could very likely meet again in the AFC Championship Game). The field is a veritable video game...
...soil has been poisoned and our air has been contaminated," says Peter Tweddle, the retired oil industry safety officer coordinating the local campaign to send the ghost ships back to America. "We are dying from horrible diseases. Yes, we need jobs. But at a certain point we have to say, 'Enough...