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Here is what we’ve been reading, watching and writing about over the past week…

Articles

Screwworm Update Shared At TWA Annual Convention

No screwworms have been found in Texas at this point, despite rumors that screwworms are already here.

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Videos

Yellowstone's Largest Eruption Bakes Rock Below, Leaves Two Ash Layers, And Creates An Unconformity

Geology professor Shawn Willsey catches his breath and shows the exceptional geologic features created as the ash from this eruption baked the underlying soil and rock, turning it red. While creating an exceptional unconformity.

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Living Soil Film

Our soils support 95 percent of all food production, and by 2060, our soils will be asked to give us as much food as we have consumed in the last 500 years. They filter our water. They are one of our most cost-effective reservoirs for sequestering carbon. They are our foundation for biodiversity. And they are vibrantly alive, teeming with 10,000 pounds of biological life in every acre. 

Yet in the last 150 years, we’ve lost half of the basic building block that makes soil productive. The societal and environmental costs of soil loss and degradation in the United States alone are now estimated to be as high as $85 billion every single year. Like any relationship, our living soil needs our tenderness. It’s time we changed everything we thought we knew about soil. Let’s make this the century of living soil.

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And that’s it - as always thank you..

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