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Fungi Are Helping Farmers Unlock the Secrets of Soil Carbon

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He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland. We like to think of these wood chips as encouraging the fungi from the native forest around to come into our fields and partner with our orchards and with our crops.” Those are nitrogen-rich plants, and nobody’s applying fertilizer,” he says.

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As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust

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Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. Over that time, only a handful of smaller-scale research projects have attempted to document current sediment contaminants on what is now almost 20,000 acres of exposed playa that is adding dust to the region’s already poor air quality.