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2. Soil quality - Wikipedia

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   Soil quality reflects how well a soil performs the functions of maintaining biodiversity and productivity, partitioning water and solute flow, filtering and buffering, nutrient cycling, and providing support for plants and other structures. Soil management has a major impact on soil quality. Soil quality relates to soil functions. Unlike water ...

3. Textile recycling - Wikipedia

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   Textile recycling is the process of recovering fiber, yarn, or fabric and reprocessing the material into new, useful products. [1] Textile waste is split into pre-consumer and post-consumer waste and is sorted into five different categories derived from a pyramid model.

4. Environmental impact of fashion - Wikipedia

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   The consumer use phase in the life cycle of clothing and other textiles is a significant area of impact, yet is often overlooked. [60] While there is minimal research into energy efficient washers and dryers as a method of reducing impact on the consumer side, [ 60 ] wearing garments for 9 months longer could cut overall waste by 22% and water ...

5. Ecosystem service - Wikipedia

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   An example for water purification as an ecosystem service is as follows: In New York City, where the quality of drinking water had fallen below standards required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), authorities opted to restore the polluted Catskill Watershed that had previously provided the city with the ecosystem service of ...

6. Soil ecology - Wikipedia

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   Soil microbial communities experience shifts in the diversity and composition during dehydration and rehydration cycles. [5] Soil moisture affects carbon cycling a phenomenon known as Birch effect. [6] [7] Temperature variations in soil are influenced by factors such as seasonality, environmental conditions, vegetation, and soil composition.

7. You're not crazy. We're in a drought and it's pouring rain - AOL

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   After being deluged with 14 inches of rain over three days, which was far more than the soil could absorb, the city saw just 0.03 inch in the entire month of October.