Topsoil
noun
The top layer of soil that has the highest amount of organic material.
For this gardening project, we first need to remove the topsoil.
Often appears as...
- remove topsoil
- fertile topsoil
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Technical
noun
The top layer of the earth's surface that is used for planting and farming.
Over-farming can lead to the loss of valuable topsoil and soil nutrients.
Often appears as...
- agricultural topsoil
- healthy topsoil
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Academic
noun
The top layer of soil that has the highest amount of organic material.
For this gardening project, we first need to remove the topsoil.
Often appears as...
- remove topsoil
- fertile topsoil
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The top layer of the earth's surface that is used for planting and farming.
Over-farming can lead to the loss of valuable topsoil and soil nutrients.
Often appears as...
- agricultural topsoil
- healthy topsoil
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Organic Content
Emphasizes the richness of topsoil due to decomposed plant and animal matter.
The gardener praised the topsoil’s organic content for his vibrant vegetable patch.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Concern
Indicates the importance of topsoil in sustaining ecosystems and preventing erosion.
After the heavy rains, preserving the topsoil from erosion became a priority.
Pro Tip 3/3Gardening Foundation
Used to convey the essential base for growing plants in gardens and farms.
He added nutrients to the topsoil to ensure healthy growth of his herbs.
Pro Tip 1/3Organic Content
Emphasizes the richness of topsoil due to decomposed plant and animal matter.
The gardener praised the topsoil’s organic content for his vibrant vegetable patch.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Concern
Indicates the importance of topsoil in sustaining ecosystems and preventing erosion.
After the heavy rains, preserving the topsoil from erosion became a priority.
Pro Tip 3/3Gardening Foundation
Used to convey the essential base for growing plants in gardens and farms.
He added nutrients to the topsoil to ensure healthy growth of his herbs.
Pro Tip 1/3Organic Content
Emphasizes the richness of topsoil due to decomposed plant and animal matter.
The gardener praised the topsoil’s organic content for his vibrant vegetable patch.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Concern
Indicates the importance of topsoil in sustaining ecosystems and preventing erosion.
After the heavy rains, preserving the topsoil from erosion became a priority.
Pro Tip 3/3Gardening Foundation
Used to convey the essential base for growing plants in gardens and farms.
He added nutrients to the topsoil to ensure healthy growth of his herbs.
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The power to think ahead...
that the way that most crops are grown around the world today is stripping the earth of the fertile topsoil we need to feed future generations. He got together with a group of scientists, and they bred perennial grain crops which have deep roots that anchor the fertile topsoil of a farm,
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Al Gore: How to make...
That's why we need a price on carbon and a price on plastic pollution. It also leaves out positive externalities. So we’re chronically underinvesting in education and health care and environmental protection, pandemic preparedness. We're ignoring the depletion of resources like topsoil
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Eben Bayer: Are...
at the end of a season, it doesn't pack them up, take them to the leaf reprocessing center and have them melted down to form new leaves. It just drops them, the shortest distance possible, to the forest floor, where they're actually upcycled into next year's topsoil.
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Put a value on nature! -...
costs the costs of loss of topsoil the costs of loss of waterways the lost productivity the loss to local communities as a result of all these factors desertification and so on those costs are almost twice as much as the market price of timber so in fact the
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Hydrogels as an...
talking to about hydrogels is because the world faces a food crisis look a growing population means more mouths to feed climate change is causing massive droughts and it's expected to get much worse topsoil erosion makes it harder to
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Giant Cassowaries are...
million living feral across the continent pig damage we see it all over the place they're trying to find some food but then doing so they disrupt all the topsoil so that if it rains heavily which it does all the time all the soil
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Nature's Oddest Looking...
living feral across the continent damage we see it all over the place they're trying to find some food but then doing so they disrupt all the topsoil so that if it rains heavily which it does all
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The new urgency of...
It ignores the depletion of resources like groundwater and topsoil and the web of living species. And it ignores the distribution of incomes and net worths, so when GDP goes up, people cheer,
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A Story of Community and...
on a mountainside and the topsoil is washed away we call it desert if acacia know that is a Dust Bowl when we bottom trawl an ocean and make a devoid of all life that is not an ocean desert
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What gardening taught me...
The gardener must then make sure that a good disposition and the proper nutrients are correctly mixed in the soil. Then it's important to aerate the topsoil
Video examples
The power to think ahead...
that the way that most crops are grown around the world today is stripping the earth of the fertile topsoil we need to feed future generations. He got together with a group of scientists, and they bred perennial grain crops which have deep roots that anchor the fertile topsoil of a farm,
Video examples
Al Gore: How to make...
That's why we need a price on carbon and a price on plastic pollution. It also leaves out positive externalities. So we’re chronically underinvesting in education and health care and environmental protection, pandemic preparedness. We're ignoring the depletion of resources like topsoil
Video examples
Eben Bayer: Are...
at the end of a season, it doesn't pack them up, take them to the leaf reprocessing center and have them melted down to form new leaves. It just drops them, the shortest distance possible, to the forest floor, where they're actually upcycled into next year's topsoil.
Video examples
Put a value on nature! -...
costs the costs of loss of topsoil the costs of loss of waterways the lost productivity the loss to local communities as a result of all these factors desertification and so on those costs are almost twice as much as the market price of timber so in fact the
Video examples
Hydrogels as an...
talking to about hydrogels is because the world faces a food crisis look a growing population means more mouths to feed climate change is causing massive droughts and it's expected to get much worse topsoil erosion makes it harder to
Video examples
Giant Cassowaries are...
million living feral across the continent pig damage we see it all over the place they're trying to find some food but then doing so they disrupt all the topsoil so that if it rains heavily which it does all the time all the soil
Video examples
Nature's Oddest Looking...
living feral across the continent damage we see it all over the place they're trying to find some food but then doing so they disrupt all the topsoil so that if it rains heavily which it does all
Video examples
The new urgency of...
It ignores the depletion of resources like groundwater and topsoil and the web of living species. And it ignores the distribution of incomes and net worths, so when GDP goes up, people cheer,
Video examples
A Story of Community and...
on a mountainside and the topsoil is washed away we call it desert if acacia know that is a Dust Bowl when we bottom trawl an ocean and make a devoid of all life that is not an ocean desert
Video examples
What gardening taught me...
The gardener must then make sure that a good disposition and the proper nutrients are correctly mixed in the soil. Then it's important to aerate the topsoil
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Alex Steffen
American Writer
We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.
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Jared Diamond
American Author
The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.
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Alice Oswald
British Poet
Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.
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Vinod Khosla
American Businessman
The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.
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Alex Steffen
American Writer
We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.
Quote examples
Jared Diamond
American Author
The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.
Quote examples
Alice Oswald
British Poet
Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.
Quote examples
Vinod Khosla
American Businessman
The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.
Example 1 of 4
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