http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Wed, 22 May 2013 16:33:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/12/why-soil-matters/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/12/why-soil-matters/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:48:59 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=25102 Soil is the source of all life. Yet “we know more about soils of Mars than about soils of Africa,” says Pedro Sanchez, director of the Earth Institute’s Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program. To remedy this situation, the Earth Institute is taking part in an ambitious undertaking to map the world’s soils.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/12/why-soil-matters/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/20/southern-louisianas-vanishing-act/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/20/southern-louisianas-vanishing-act/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:00:18 +0000 Benjamin Preston http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13761 Louisiana's wetlands -- the largest system in the United States -- are shrinking at an alarming rate.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/20/southern-louisianas-vanishing-act/feed/ 3