earth sciences
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Why You Shouldn’t Use Peat in Your Garden, and What to Use Instead
The art of gardening requires simulating in your backyard what happens naturally in the wild. With domesticated soil and plants, this can be a pretty delicate process — both for your plants and the environment.
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How to Prepare for (And Survive) a Flood
Startling images of the massive floods inundating Kentucky illustrate the scale of damage that can result from immense rainfall, which has caused rivers throughout the Bluegrass state to massively overflow their banks. On Monday, Governor Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency, announcing in a statement that the National Guard had been mobilised to deal with…