Thirteen years after discovering soil tainted from an old underground oil storage facility on a city-owned swale along NE 55th Street near the corner of Fourth Avenue, DERM officials are still asking the city how and when it plans to clean up the mess.
The board's action followed newspaper reports that the federal Environmental Protection Agency had discovered that soil tests at the Hunter's Point Superfund site in San Francisco, a former naval base, were fabricated and the soil was then trucked to landfills across the state, including Keller Canyon near Pittsburg and Kirby Canyon in Morgan Hill.
Almost our entire arsenal of antibiotics was discovered in soil, but scientists haven't gone digging for drugs in decades.
The drug's name comes from Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, where the compound was originally discovered in soil samples in the 1970s.
The discovery of new antimicrobial agents is usually discovered in soil or marine bacteria, and synthetic derivatives are generated.
The latter was founded by Rajeev Samant, a Stanford grad who worked in finance at Oracle before he returned to his native India to plant mango trees in the late 1990s and discovered his soil was better suited for grapes.
We discovered that soil communities cultured by Ageratina adenophora, a neotropical invader in Asia, retain available nitrogen that influences the biomass of the invader.
This drug, discovered in soil samples collected from Easter Island (Rapa Nui, from where the name), was originally found to have antifungal proprieties, but rapidly its immunosuppressive activity became its more important property.
Students examine basic soil properties throughout the garden and discover how soil supports the growth and survival of living things.
Also, as we discovered from a soil test, the soil is not acidic enough.
