soil Content / soil Content for 細細篇撞 en Grassland Study Examines Soil Viral Diversity in Drought /blog/grassland-study-examines-soil-viral-diversity-drought <p>Viral communities across a grassland area are not uniform, and understanding viral dynamics could lead to better insight into how bacteria in soil will react to drought and other climate changes, according to&nbsp;a new study&nbsp;out of 細細篇撞.</p> <p>Viruses can affect microbes, the food web, the carbon cycle and other ecosystem processes, including controlling bacteria.</p> November 09, 2022 - 11:31am Andy Fell /blog/grassland-study-examines-soil-viral-diversity-drought FFAR Grant to Help Improve Vineyard Soil Health /news/ffar-grant-help-improve-vineyard-soil-health <p><span><span>Wine grapes are susceptible to subtle changes in temperature and precipitation, making them particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span><span>Regenerative agriculture, which uses holistic farming and grazing practices to strengthen soil health and crop productivity, may help grape vines become more resilient to changing climate conditions. However, more research is needed to increase adoption of regenerative agriculture practices on vineyards. </span></span></p> August 03, 2022 - 12:20pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/ffar-grant-help-improve-vineyard-soil-health Coming Back to Soil /climate/what-can-i-do/blog/coming-back-soil Soil Life, a project between 細細篇撞 and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, aims to educate people about the necessity of soil to support and sustain life and empower young people with solutions to some of our greatest global challenges. May 03, 2022 - 1:09pm Katherine E Kerlin /climate/what-can-i-do/blog/coming-back-soil Two Elected to National Academy of Engineering /news/two-elected-national-academy-engineering-0 <p><span><span><span>Two professors from the University of California, Davis, have been elected as members of the National Academy of Engineering. Professors Kate Scow and Daniel Sperling join 13 other current 細細篇撞 faculty members who are in the academy. (</span><a href="https://academicaffairs.ucdavis.edu/national-academy-engineering"><span>See list here</span></a><span>.) </span></span></span></p> February 10, 2022 - 1:45pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/two-elected-national-academy-engineering-0 Almond Orchard Recycling a Climate-Smart Strategy /climate/news/almond-orchard-recycling-a-climate-smart-strategy <p>Recycling trees onsite can sequester carbon, save water and increase crop yields, making it a climate-smart practice for Californias irrigated almond orchards, finds a study from the University of California, Davis.</p> <p><a href="https://orchardrecycling.ucdavis.edu/what-whole-orchard-recycling">Whole orchard recycling</a> is when old orchard trees are ground, chipped and turned back into the soil before new almond trees are planted.</p> April 01, 2020 - 12:19pm Katherine E Kerlin /climate/news/almond-orchard-recycling-a-climate-smart-strategy Compost Key to Sequestering Carbon in the Soil /climate/news/compost-key-sequestering-carbon-soil <p>By moving beyond the surface level and literally digging deep, scientists at the University of California, Davis, found that compost is a key to storing carbon in semi-arid cropland soils, a strategy for offsetting CO2 emissions.</p> <p>For their 19-year study, <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.14762">published&nbsp;in the journal <em>Global Change Biology</em></a>, scientists dug roughly 6 feet down to compare soil carbon changes in conventional, cover-cropped and compost-added plots of corn-tomato and wheat-fallow cropping systems. They found that:</p> August 14, 2019 - 3:24pm Katherine E Kerlin /climate/news/compost-key-sequestering-carbon-soil Maximizing Use of Water Stored in Soil Could Result in Savings for Farmers /food/news/maximizing-use-water-stored-soil-could-result-savings-farmers <p>As California faces more frequent and severe droughts, agriculture, which relies on irrigation from surface water and groundwater, could become expensive and unsustainable. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, looked at using a free resource rain water stored in the soil and found that optimizing its use could go a long way to help meet demand for five California perennial crops. Their findings appear in the journal <em>Environmental Research Letters</em>.</p> May 14, 2019 - 10:00am Amy M Quinton /food/news/maximizing-use-water-stored-soil-could-result-savings-farmers