Metagenomics reveals the functional profiles of #soil microorganisms and nutrient cycling under long-term #grass vegetation cropping.

https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/03/metagenomics-reveals-functional.html

#OpenAccess #microbiota #microbiology

In France, we still recover shell fragments from the First World #War from trees. In other countries, bombs from wars long past have to be defused on a regular basis. The #environmental impact of #wars is rarely discussed. Wars are fuelled by #fossilFuels and now also consume rare earth elements. Wars damage the #climate and contaminate #soil and #water. It’s the ordinary people who end up foot the bill.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/19/down-to-earth-iran-us-israeli-war-environmental-destruction

#climateCrisis #stopWars #pollution #CO2Footprint #emissions

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#Blabbermouth
SOIL Is Putting Finishing Touches On First New Music In 13 Years

https://blabbermouth.net/news/soil-is-putting-finishing-touches-on-first-new-music-in-13-years

#SOIL #IsPuttingFinishingTouchesOnFirstNewMusicIn #Years #album #EP #interview #bassist #Blabbermouth #metal #music

The final proofs of THE WORLD BENEATH OUR FEET are in, so it's almost time for this labour of love to go to the printers!

My popular science-style book about the incredible life in soil is now available for pre-order EVERYWHERE, so please go bag yourself a copy! Now I just have to decide the shortlist of my photographs to go into it...

#Soil #TheWorldBeneathOurFeet #SoilBiodiversity #Author #NatureBooks

Looking forward to giving a plenary lecture at the VAAM 2026 conference in Berlin (my talk is on Sunday)

It's on my favorite topic....

#globalchange #microbiology #microbiome #soil

📢 Pre-conference workshop:
Open-source chemometrics for real-world NIR handheld spectroscopy

A hands-on course at CAC 2026 (International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry):
https://congressos.urv.cat/cac-2026/preliminary-courses

📅 29 June – 3 July 2026
📍 Tarragona, Spain (sunny and Mediterranean)

Fee: only 75 EUR, so reserve your seat asap

If you work with NIR, chemometrics, or deploy models in practice, this may be relevant.

#Chemometrics #NIRSpectroscopy #OpenScience #AnalyticalChemistry #soil

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🍀🧬 Only about one in 5,000 #clovers has four #leaves. Why are they so hard to find?

Esther Ikoro explains how biological variation and factors like #soil, #air, #temperature, or even nibbling #insects determine if a seed grows in unexpected ways. She also shares a visual trick you can use to find them in a clover patch.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/why-are-four-leaf-clovers-so-rare?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=four-leaf-clovers-rare

#biology #stem #botany #culture #genetics #germination #kids #mutation #plants #science #womeninstem #blackinstem #traditions #tksst #video