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*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*
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Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow the latest IUSS Alert No. 150, December 2017.


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IUSS NewsSeason’s Greetings

The IUSS would like to wish all its members and friends a very merry
Christmas, and a prosperous and happy New Year!

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21st World Congress of Soil Science – latest news

The 21st World Congress of Soil Science (21WCSS) will take place in Rio de
Janeiro, August 12 – 17, 2018. Dedicated to the theme *“Soil Science:
Beyond food and fuel”*, it will review the key role of soil science in
answering some of the topical key questions regarding future food and water
security, environmental protection and climate change mitigation.
Information on *technical conference tours* has been made available on the
conference website.

Important dates:
*Abstract submission until January 20, 2018*
Abstract acceptance after March 15, 2018
Early registration ends March 31, 2018
Regular registration until May 12, 2018

Read more: https://www.21wcss.org/
Download the congress information: http://iuss.boku.ac.at/files/
21wcss_-_meeting_information.pdf

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National voting of Officers for IUSS Divisions and Commissions 2017 – last
reminder

Every four years the officers for the IUSS Divisions and Commissions are
newly elected. Voting by IUSS Members is conducted electronically on a one
vote per individual in each National Member Society basis. Elections will
be decided by a simple majority of votes cast.

In line with the IUSS Bye-laws (version Oct. 2014) the national Soil
Science Societies shall have organized the national voting of officers for
Divisions and Commissions. The voting system for society members may still
be open up to 31 December 2017, depending on the national society. The list
of nominated persons (ballot), the corresponding biographies and the
guideline for the voting procedure in 2017 are provided on the IUSS website.

The Presidents of the National Member Society are kindly requested to send
the results of elections to [log in to unmask] (Cc to
[log in to unmask]) *no later than 28 January 2018*.

Read more: http://iuss.boku.ac.at/index.php?article_id=649

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EGU 2018 – final reminder for abstract submission

As already announced, the EGU General Assembly 2018 (EGU2018) will take
place 08–13 Apr 2018 in Vienna, Austria.

IUSS is involved in the organisation of session SSS1.3/EOS5 Soil science
education, outreach and public engagement (co-organized). This session
welcomes all perspectives on teaching soil science from school level to
continuing professional development in non-academic settings. Contributions
are welcomed that move away from concepts and methods for teaching soil
science within traditional disciplines (chemistry, biology, physics) to
those that use soil systems approaches. Innovative methods from the field,
classroom and laboratory are welcome from anyone working with soil science
education across varied settings. The conveners also welcome demonstrations
of novel approaches for soil science outreach and public engagement that
involve scientists and non-scientists. Examples that also measure the
effectiveness of educational and outreach activities are especially
welcome.

*Deadline for abstract submission: 10 January 2018, 13:00 CET.*

Read more: https://egu2018.eu/

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IUSS Bulletin 131 published

The most recent IUSS Bulletin is online, featuring a variety of articles
from an activity report of the IUSS Secretariat including recent IUSS Award
winners, recent achievements during the International Decade of Soils
(2015-2024), conference and meeting reports, upcoming conferences and
meetings, new publications and obituaries of outstanding soil scientists.

Should you wish to submit contributions for the next Bulletin, which will
be published in June 2018, or place paid advertisements, please contact the
IUSS Secretariat at [log in to unmask]

Read more: http://www.iuss.org/index.php?article_id=76

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Newsletter of IUSS Division 4 ‘Soil Connects’ published

Issue 7 of the biannual SOIL Connects Newsletter of IUSS Division 4 has
just been released. It includes a number of interesting articles, starting
with a report from the Division Chair, Christian Feller, followed by an
overview of the divisional and interdivisional symposia during 21WCSS in
Rio de Janeiro next year, interesting articles on Open digital mapping for
assessing carbon stored in tropical peatlands, or Climate change revealed
from historical soil temperature data, concluding with new publications and
forthcoming meetings.

Read more: http://www.iuss.org/index.php?article_id=423

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World of Soils on IUSS website amended

The World of Soils page on the IUSS website has been amended by 18 profile
pictures from Latvia and Estonia taken during the International WRB Soil
Classification Field Workshop in July 2017 which was financially supported
by the IUSS Stimulus Fund, IUSS Division 1 and University of Latvia. The
guidebook of the workshop has also been amended accordingly and is
available on the website.

Read more: http://www.iuss.org/index.php?article_id=73

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WRB now available in Russian

The third edition of the international soil classification system World
Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) is now available in Russian. After
the Polish, Spanish and Georgian versions, this is the fourth translation
of the current WRB. Many thanks to Inga Spiridonova for the translation and
to Maria Gerasimova and Pavel Krasilnikov for the revision of the text.
This edition was possible due to the financial support from FAO, and the
Russian team and the IUSS Working Group WRB express their sincere
gratitude. Translations into some other languages are currently in
progress. It is hoped that spreading WRB in various countries will
contribute to a better communication among scientists and to the
development of the WRB system i tself.

Read more: http://ecfs.msu.ru/ru/news/opublikovana-russkaya-versiya-
mirovoy-referativnoy-bazy-pochvennyh-resursov-2014-871

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Activities launched in the framework of the International Decade of Soils
(2015-2024)IUSS participates in ICSU Grant Project “TROP-ICSU”

As one of the activities launched during the International Decade of Soils (
IDS), aiming at reaching out to a broader audience and to support education
on soil IUSS participates as supporting partner in an ICSU Grant Project
led by IUBS called “TROP-ICSU: Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented
Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding”. The aim of TROP
ICSU is to develop education and science communication modules in such a
way that every future citizen would be better equipped to identify
appropriate solutions for sustainable and equitable development.

The main target audience are senior school and undergraduate
college/university teachers. TROP ICSU will train them to use new
pedagogical tools that are based on the use of local data to teach the
science of climate change. In year one of the project, the main activity
was to test a suite of simulators (and also models/interactive
videos/virtual reality platforms) of climate change as pedagogical tools.
In 2018 the project will focus on pilot testing of new pedagogical tools,
curriculum outreach and public engagement modules. The project partners
are: IUBS – Lead partner, INQUA –co-lead partner, IUSS, IMU, IUGS, IUGG,
IUHPST, IUFRO, AUC, IMAGINARYCODATA, ICSU-ROA, UNESCO and the National
academies of Australia, India, Mongolia, South Africa, Ecuador & Egypt.

The TROP ICSU team would be glad to learn from your experience related to
the topic. Please, contact experts you think may know about such tools.

If you and/or your colleagues are aware of such tools, please submit web
links to either projects or web tools that are related to climate change
and soil to [log in to unmask]

Read more: https://tropicsu.org/
Soils in Landscapes of the World – 2018 Calendar

This 2018 Calendar showing Soils in Landscapes of the World was designed in
the Department of Soil Science and Landscape Management, Faculty of Earth
Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, to celebrate
2018 as the next year of the FAO UNESCO International Decade of Soils
(2015-2024) and also the 100 anniversary of the Polish Geographical Society
(1918-2018). Authors of the photos: Marcin Switoniak (tundra and mountain
landscapes) and Michal Jankowski (others).

Read more: http://iuss.boku.ac.at/files/calendar_2018_-_soils_300dpi.jpg
Field research: discovering the structure of soil

Get your hands dirty with these classroom experiments exploring the
composition of soil – and find out why this matters.

Soil is essential for life on this planet. Without it, we could not grow
the food we need to live. What’s perhaps less well known is that soil has
other important functions, too, such as filtering our water, storing it to
help prevent flooding and droughts, and providing a habitat for a third of
the world’s biodiversity – most of which we still know very little about.
Soils also have a large impact on climate change, as they can store large
amounts of organic carbon and are the most important terrestrial sink for
carbon dioxide (Janzen, 2004).

For most students, particularly those who live in cities, the world below
their feet remains unknown. To remedy this, we developed a two-part
activity to help students to gain insights into the role that soil
structure and its organic matter content has for all of us.

*By Barbara Birli, Jane Mills, Francesco Morari.*

Read more: http://www.scienceinschool.org/content/field-research-
discovering-structure-soil
IDS News from the Latin American Soil Science Society (SLCS):
“#ElSueloEsVida, #InTlalliTonemiliz, #LaTerraÉsVida, #TheSoilIsLife,
#DerBodenistLeben,”

With the hash tag #TheSoilIsLife and the support of the Argentinean Soil
Science Association (AACS), the regional FAO South America and INTA; within
the framework of the educational project carried out by the Latin American
Soil Science Society (SLCS), Argentina is resuming its educational project
this year and launches “So are the Soils of my Country” together with the
agricultural enterprise CREA, and Federico Fritz in front of it. The
project is for young people fr om the last two years of secondary school in
public and private schools, with the purpose of generating a space for
reflection, awareness, study and research based on the multiple functions
carried out by the SOIL resource.
“¡Thus are the Soils of my Nation®!”

In 2017, another school in Ecuador joined the SLCS Educational project
“¡Thus are the Soils of My Nation!” and therefore the “Educar 2000” College
is a new member of the “Latin American Network for Soil Science teaching
and learning” (RELAEECS® for its acronym in Spanish), which also
participates in social networks with the hash tag #TheSoilIsLife.

Likewise, the Bolivian Society of Soil Science has begun its educational
project by convening its first Bolivian “Symposium of Educational
Innovations on Teaching Soil Science” held on November 14, 2017, from 9
a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Chané Hall of the International Convention Center
FEXPOCRUZ, in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, within the
framework of its VIII Bolivian Congress of Soil Science.
IUSS Stimulus Fund - Global Soil Icon Contest

Soil is the essence of all terrestrial life, and critical to the delivery
of major ecosystem services for human wellbeing and nature conservancy.
Yet, the term “soil” does not arouse the much deserved excitement or the
“wow” moment among general public, civil societies, policy makers, and
others. Thus, there is a strong need for a global icon that symbolizes the
importance of soil as the elixir of terrestrial life, provi der of food,
moderator of climate, filter and reservoir of renewable water, habitat for
germplasm, inspiration for aesthetical and spiritual activities, source of
pharmaceuticals and other materials, archive of planetary and human
history, among others. As an example of an icon, the WWF has been extremely
successful in using the panda as an iconic symbol for species conservation.
What iconic symbol can represent major ecosystem services of soil, while
being simple and easy to be comprehended by the general public? Thus,
identifying and promoting such a symbol would be a great leap forward.

Thus, IUSS will award 2,500 USD from the Stimulus Fund for the best Soil
Icon. IUSS would like to invite all soil lovers, be they school children,
students, designers, soil scientists or experts of any other profession, to
submit their ideas for a Soil Icon. The winning icon will be used during
the International Decade of Soils (2015-2024), an initiative launched by
the International Union of Soil Sciences to raise awareness of the key
roles played by soils in addressing the major resource, environmental,
health and social problems humanity is currently facing.

Submissions should comprise a vector-based file with the icon and a short
explanation of the idea and the author(s) behind (max. 2 pages). Please
send your submissions to [log in to unmask]

*Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2018*

The IUSS Stimulus Fund Committee shall evaluate all soil icon submissions
and make recommendations to the Executive Committee. Final decision will be
announced by the IUSS President or delegate within one month after the
submission date given above. The results will be announced on the IUSS
website. The winner will be informed in writing.
The best 12 icons will be displayed on the IUSS website (one per month).

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General NewsSoil penetration by earthworms and plant roots

Soil compaction is becoming a prominent problem in agriculture. The
mechanics of soil bioturbation by earthworms and plant roots are studied to
better understand how soil structure is generated naturally. Models have
been developed to understand the similarities and differences in soil
penetration by burrowing earthworms and growing plant roots. These models
were tested with highly resolved rate controlled penetrometers. In a paper
recently published in Vadose Zone Journal, researchers developed a
mechanical model for soil bioturbation that can consider similarities and
differences between earthworms and plant roots based on different soil
penetration rates.

Read more: https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/story/2017/nov/fri/soil-
penetration-by-earthworms-and-plant-roots

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Perennially-based practices improve soil hydrology

Agricultural producers around the world are increasingly dealing with
periods of too little or too much rainfall, contributing to droughts and
floods, as well as crop yield declines and soil degradation. It is often
suggested that practices that keep soil covered year-round can increase
soil water storage that potentially negate such outcomes, but the degree to
which different approaches can deliver water benefits has not been well
quantified. In the September-October issue of Soil Science Society of
America Journal, researchers conducted a global meta-analysis comparing
agricultural management impacts on two soil water properties associated
with increasing the water stored in soils: total porosity and water
retained at field capacity.

Read more: https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/story/2017/nov/fri/
perennially-based-practices-improve-soil-hydrology

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Better soil could trap as much planet-warming carbon as transport produces

Improving soil health in farmlands could capture extra carbon equivalent to
the planet-warming emissions generated by the transport sector, one of the
world’s most polluting industries, experts say. Soil naturally absorbs
carbon from the atmosphere through a process known as sequestration which
not only reduce harmful greenhouse gases but also creates more fertile
soil. Better soil management could boost carbon stored in the top layer of
the soil by up to 1.85 giga tonnes each year, about the same as the carbon
emissions of transport globally, according to a study published in Nature’s
Scientific Reports journal.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-
agriculture-soil/better-soil-could-trap-as-much-planet-
warming-carbon-as-transport-produces-study-idUSKBN1DE2DB?
org=1364&lvl=100&ite=584&lea=140666&ctr=0&par=1&trk=

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The Global Soil Organic Carbon Map (GSOCmap)

The GSOCmap provides users with very useful information to monitor the soil
condition, identify degraded areas, set restoration targets, explore SOC
sequestration potentials, support the greenhouse gas emission reporting
under the UNFCCC and make evidence-based decisions to mitigate and adapt to
a changing climate.

Read more: http://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/pillars-
action/4-information-and-data/global-soil-organic-carbon-gsoc-map/en/ or
http://www.fao.org/3/a-i8195e.pdf

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Global Soil Security

Global Soil Security is concerned with maintaining and improving the
world’s soil resource to produce food, fibre and freshwater, maintain the
biodiversity and ecosystem services and contribute to human health. On
World Soil Day 2017 a soil webinar has been launched.

Read more: https://globalsoilsecurity.com/

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Soil Power! The Dirty Way to a Green Planet

Regenerative agriculture as a solution for climate change. Now scientists
are documenting how sequestering carbon in soil can produce a double
dividend: It reduces climate change by extracting carbon from the
atmosphere, and it restores the health of degraded soil and increases
agricultural yields. Many scientists and farmers believe the emerging
understanding of soil’s role in climate stability and agricultural
productivity will prompt a paradigm shift in agriculture, triggering the
abandonment of conventional practices like tillage, crop residue removal,
mono-cropping, excessive grazing and blanket use of chemical fertilizer and
pesticide.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/opinion/sunday/soil-
power-the-dirty-way-to-a-green-planet.html

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The zoo beneath our feet: We’re only beginning to understand soil’s hidden
world

The gardener has a long, touchy-feely relationship with the soil. As every
good cultivator knows, you assess the earth by holding it. Is it dark and
crumbly, is there an earthworm or beetle in there, is it moist, and when
you smell it, are you getting that pleasant earthy aroma? All these signs
are reassuring, and have been through the ages, but they are mere
indicators of something much greater and infinitely mysterious: a hidden
universe beneath our feet.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/the-zoo-
beneath-our-feet-were-only-beginning-to-understand-soils-
hidden-world/2017/08/08/f73e3950-7799-11e7-9eac-d56bd5568db8_story.html?utm_
term=.ecb4f4ca7cb7

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Soil experiments for children

The Soil LAB Activity Book is an educational tool for teachers, children
and anyone who wishes to learn more about this year’s theme. This series
presents six simple science experiments to do at home or at school with
children. They provide a fun way to introduce children of all ages to basic
scientific soil concepts and reveal many of the reasons why caring for our
soils means caring for our future. Available in English and Spanish.

Read more: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i7957e.pdf

[From: Global Soil Partnership Newsletter #14 | Are you ready to celebrate
World Soil Day?]

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Conferences, Meetings and Workshops2018
KEYSOM training School: Linking soil biodiversity with soil organic matter
dynamics

March 20-23, 2018, Birmensdorf, Zurich, Switzerland. This school will
provide a comprehensive overview of the tools available to assess the soil
biodiversity (including macrofauna, mesofauna, microfauna and
microorganisms), such as classical taxonomic approaches to novel soil DNA
metabarcoding. The originality of this training school lies in the
interdisciplinarity of its subjects, from molecular biology to soil
science. Application until January 15, 2018.

Read more: http://www.keysom.eu/ or http://www.iuss.org/index.php?
article_id=21
International field workshop WRB soil classification 2018

September 16 –23, 2018, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. A field trip into a
pedological mosaic of Transylvania is proposed for the 2018 workshop. The
soil pattern is imposed by a varied relief starting from lowlands, with
extensive alluvial terraces, to tablelands and mountains. During the
workshop, we will experience a diversity of soils (approximately 20 soil
profiles) that include Chernozems, Phaeozems, Luvisols, Cambisols,
Technosols and soils with archeological interest formed in Roman Empire
period heritage sites. Registration and payment closes 31 July 2018.

Read more: https://sites.google.com/view/wrb-romania2018

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New publications
IUSS book The Nexus of Soils, Plants, Animals and Human Health

Edited by Bal Ram Singh, Michael J. McLaughlin and Eric Brevik on behalf of
the IUSS; Published as GeoEcology essay by Schweizerbart in December 2017.
VII, 163 pages, 17 figures, 12 tables, 17×24cm, 480 g. ISBN
978-3-510-65417-8, price paperback: 24.90 €.

The 21 contributions in this book describe the role soils play for plant,
animal and human health. They show that soil- and human health are
intricately connected, because healthy soils produce healthy crops, which
in turn nourish humans and animals, allowing for their health and
productivity.

Soil quality directly influences the quality and quantity of food that can
be produced, as soils provide essential macro- and micronutrients and
attenuate environmental pollutants. On the other hand, these same
pollutants, thus concentrated in soils, may cause soils to become toxic and
degraded. Soils (and their crops) may also be responsible for exposure to
pests and pathogens, while, at the same time, providing drug substances and
may even suppress diseases. Soil quality is vital on a global scale, as
more than 800 million people around the world are undernourished, implying
that their intake of food is insufficient to meet their daily energy needs,
and the deficiency of essential micronutrients is even more widespread.
Nearly one third of the world’s population is affected by zinc deficiency,
while iron deficiency affects nearly 3 billion people. Climate change has
been shown to affect animal and human health, and soils are intricately
linked to the atmosphere by being both a source and sink of greenhouse
gases. Soils are the largest active terrestrial reservoir of organic carbon
and its sequestration in soils can be enhanced by improved management
practices.

The book summarizes the current state of research of these important issues
and provides a comprehensive treatise of the global importance of soils for
humankind.

Copies can be ordered directly from the publisher or from the IUSS
Secretariat for EUR 24.90 (paperback). IUSS members can order it from the
Secretariat for a reduced price of EUR 20.00 (minimum 10 copies) – please
note that shipping costs will be added to the sales price.

Read more: http://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/isbn/
9783510654178

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Essentials of Soil Science.

Soil formation, functions, use, and classification (World Reference Base,
WRB)

By Winfried Blum; Schad, Peter; Nortcliff, Stephen; will be published 1
January 2018 by Schweizerbart. 171 pages, 101 figures, 22 tables, ISBN
978-3-443-01090-4, price paperback 27.90 €.
This book is an introduction to soil science and describes the development
of soils, their characteristics and their material composition as well as
their functions in terrestrial and aquatic environments. Soil functions
include the delivery of goods and services for the human society, such as
food, clean water, and the maintenance of biodiversity.
The book is profusely illustrated with many coloured figures and tables to
accompany the text and ease its understanding. Particularly, the chapter on
soil classification, based on the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (
WRB), includes numerous coloured pictures to facilitate understanding the
characteristics of particular soil types. Chapters on soil protection and
remediation as well as on soil monitoring and the history of soil sciences
conclude the book together with a very comprehensive alphabetical index,
allowing for a quick and easy orientation about the most important terms in
soil sciences.
The book addresses all those, who want to orient themselves about soils,
their functions, their importance in terrestrial and aquatic environments
and their contribution to the actual and future development of the human
society, such as teachers, practitioners and students in the fields of
agriculture, forestry, gardening, terrestrial and aquatic ecology and
environmental engineering, and of course, beginning students of soil
science.

Read more: http://schweizerbart.com/9783443010904

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GlobalSoilMap – Digital Soil Mapping from Country to Globe

Proceedings of the Global Soil Map 2017 Conference, July 4-6, 2017, Moscow,
Russia. Edited by Dominique Arrouays, Igor Savin, Johan Leenaars, Alex B.
McBratney, published by Routledge 28 November 2017, © 2018 – CRC Press, 174
pages, ISBN 9780815375487, price hardback GBP 104.00.

*GlobalSoilMap: Digital Soil Mapping from Country to Globe* contains
contributions that were presented at the 2nd GlobalSoilMap conference, held
4-6 July 2017 in Moscow, Russian Federation. These contributions
demonstrate new developments in the GlobalSoilMap project and digital soil
mapping technology in many parts of the world, with special focus on former
USSR countries. GlobalSoilMap: Digital Soil Mapping from Country to Globe
aims to stimulate capacity building and new incentives to develop full
GlobalSoilMap products in all parts of the world.

Read more: https://www.routledge.com/GlobalSoilMap—-Digital-Soil-
Mapping-from-Country-to-Globe-Proceedings/Arrouays-Savin-
Leenaars-McBratney/p/book/9780815375487
<https://www.routledge.com/GlobalSoilMap---Digital-Soil-Mapping-from-Country-to-Globe-Proceedings/Arrouays-Savin-Leenaars-McBratney/p/book/9780815375487>

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Phytoremediation of Environmental Pollutants

By Ram Chandra, N.K. Dubey, Vineet Kumar, published December 19, 2017 by CRC
Press, 510 Pages, 46 Colour & 81 B/W Illustrations, ISBN 9781138062603,
price hardback GBP 116.00.

Phytoremediation aids to augment bioremediation as it uses broad range
plants to remediate soil, sediment, surface water and ground water that
have been contaminated with toxic metals, organic, pesticides and
radionuclides. This book serves to disseminate detailed up to date
knowledge regarding the various aspects of phytoremediation and
plant-microbe interaction. The book highlights process and molecular
mechanisms for industrial waste detoxification during phytoremediation in
wetland plants, role of endophytic bacteria for phytoremediation of
environmental pollutants, constructed wetland treatment system for
treatment and recycling of hazardous wastewater, amongst other relevant
topics.

Read more: https://www.crcpress.com/Phytoremediation-of-
Environmental-Pollutants/Chandra-Dubey-Kumar/p/book/9781138062603

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Handbook of Environmental Health, Fourth Edition, Volume II: Pollutant
Interactions in Air, Water, and Soil

By Herman Koren and Michael S. Bisesi. November 28, 2017 by CRC Press, 904
Pages, ISBN 9780815380979, price GBP 61.60. The Handbook of Environmental
Health-Pollutant Interactions in Air, Water, and Soil includes Nine
Chapters on a variety of topics including Air Quality Management, Solid and
Hazardous Waste Management, Private and Public Water Supplies, Private and
Public Sewage Disposal and Soils, Water Pollution and Water Quality
Controls ,Major Instrumentation for Environmental Evaluation of Ambient
Air, Water, and Soil.

Read more: https://www.crcpress.com/Handbook-of-Environmental-
Health-Fourth-Edition-Volume-II-Pollutant-Interactions/Koren-Bisesi/p/book/
9780815380979

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https://www.delta-t.co.uk/product/eq3/

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