#News: #Palmoil #deforestation in #India is set to grow due to the Indian governments' plans. This planned #ecocide will destroy #soil health and exacerbate water shortages, putting many animals close to #extinction, writes Dr Seema Javed #Boycottpalmoil https://indianpsu.com/palm-oil-continues-to-be-major-driver-of-deforestation/

🚨 New collaborative results from the lab:
Only a minority of bacteria grow after wetting in both natural and post-mining biocrusts in a hyperarid phosphate mine
#soil #stable_isotopes #post_mining #drylands
https://soil.copernicus.org/articles/9/231/2023/

Hi Mastodon #garden lovers or #soil knowers or #fungus experts, I have no idea what I've come home to in part of my newly planted garden, #help? looks like some sort of #seed? I recently added a heavy dose of #compost to this garden and planted lupin seeds underneath this particular area, but this looks odd!

This week, 24 new Winogradsky columns came into being, with help from the KS2 classes at my local school 🦠💚

As they all needed egg yolks, back at home I'm now making meringues! Lots and lots of meringues!!!

I have no idea how the students mud jars will end up, but here's a pic of one of my winter experiments a couple of years ago with soil/water from the same river...

#WinogradskyColumn #soil #microbiology #StemAmbassador

In the background, the #beach opposite #stornoway #harbour where we deployed our new equipment to capture #rope and #net mending #cuttings (#ELFG). The situation is pretty bad with #soil mostly composed of
#plastic fibre once the #seaweed has decomposed. Hopefully we will stop this from occurring in our #environment.