Word: topsoil
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...past century, Haiti has transformed its ecological landscape by felling trees for charcoal. This practice has eroded the topsoil in many regions, making agriculture difficult for farmers and forcing them to overcrowd the cities, which then leads to crime and poverty. For long-term success, Haiti must transition to sustainable agriculture, which would help the economy as well as the environment...
...From Vermont, where veal and dairy farmer Abe Collins is developing software designed to help farmers foster carbon-rich topsoil quickly, to Denmark, where Thomas Harttung's Aarstiderne farm grazes 150 head of cattle, a vanguard of small farmers are trying to get the word out about how much more eco-friendly they are than factory farming. "If you suspend a cow in the air with buckets of grain, then it's a bad guy," Harttung explains. "But if you put it where it belongs - on grass - that cow becomes not just carbon-neutral but carbon-negative." Collins goes even...
...result was a fertile cultural topsoil in which classical music could take hold and grow. When China began allowing students to go abroad in the 1980s, many swarmed to the music capitals of Europe and the U.S. to study in the classical tradition. Long himself left China in 1988 and spent five years at the Hochschule Academy in West Berlin, then several more years in Hong Kong as part of the small classical music community there. In 1990 and 1992 he visited Beijing and was given the opportunity to conduct the Central Philharmonic Government Orchestra - a party-run symphony with...
...small, it said, to have "not at all affected the environment." But it was not the first such incident. The ASN announced July 7 that uranium-tainted waste liquids from the Tricastin nuclear plant, in southern France 30 miles northwest of Avignon, had leaked into surrounding rivers and topsoil. Inhabitants of the Vaucluse department were ordered to refrain from drinking water, eating locally caught fish, and irrigating crops with potentially contaminated water. The water prohibition remains in effect for thousands of parched locals as inspections lumber on. "We're being treated like sub-citizens," protested Yves Beck, mayor of neighboring...
...leave a layer of heavily contaminated silt everywhere. John Pardue, director of the Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute at Louisiana State University, says, "We're going to have to find out how deep the contamination is. Can we scrape it off, or are we going to have to replace topsoil...