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industrial farming resulted in nitrogen in places where it didn't belong, and soils suffering from a lack of nutrients

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overgrazing contributes to erosion

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As soil comes closer to natural standards, runoff is reduced and much cleaner

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The loss of production due to salinization is now equal to that caused by erosion

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70% of freshwater resources used for agriculture at unsustainable rate

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Compost is extremely vital to farming process

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it isn't plowing that kills earthworms, it's the lack of food

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one third of the world's arable land has been lost to erosion

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poster children of the "green revolution" were Mexico and India

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nitrogen fertilizer removed a limiting factor, and increased both production of crops and the toil on the soil

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The reason a forest grows different from a valley is the biology in the soil.

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plants work together with bacteria to gather nitrogen

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all of the aboveground part of plants' purpose is to generate food for the proper microorganisms in the root system

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So many microorganisms in 1 gram of soil, 70-80% still unidentified

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50% of soil is actually air or water in the pockets between particles

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7% of the world is prairie soil
12% forest soil

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prairie soil, not forest soil, is the most productive soil

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75% of soils are formed by transported material

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The more time that passes, the more that the rock breaks down into soil and minerals

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The higher you go(toward the surface), the more that life interacts with the rock and transforms it into soil

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Hawaii is a great place to study soil because the volcanoes are still active, and each island was formed at a different time

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Soil starts at glaciers, and is so thin it will travel all the way from the glacier to the sea