Soil is far more than dirt—it is a living, porous system threaded with microscopic channels that draw rainwater deep underground, where plant roots can reach it. Researchers at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics...Soil is far more than dirt—it is a living, porous system threaded with microscopic channels that draw rainwater deep underground, where plant roots can reach it. Researchers at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS), along with their international collaborators,have now shown, in striking detail, how common farming practices quietly destroy this natural plumbing. The f indings were published in Science (doi:10.1126/science.aec0970) on March 19.展开更多
文摘Soil is far more than dirt—it is a living, porous system threaded with microscopic channels that draw rainwater deep underground, where plant roots can reach it. Researchers at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS), along with their international collaborators,have now shown, in striking detail, how common farming practices quietly destroy this natural plumbing. The f indings were published in Science (doi:10.1126/science.aec0970) on March 19.