Fukushima is distributing 20m sunflower seeds to suck up the cesium radionuclides that have permeated the soil.
Centuries of industry based on the grim end-products of animal husbandry permeated the soil and the air: bone china, glue, soap, cooking fat, recycled cooking fat.
In particular we discuss, among the discrete monitoring techniques exploited by INGV, soil gas surveying, which consists in a collection of gas samples from the soil zone not saturated (dry zone) to measure the geogas gaseous species both in fluxes (CO2, CH4, 222Rn) and in concentration (He, H2, H2S, helium, hydrogen, CO2, CH4, 222Rn), that permeate the soil pores.
Likewise, suffering and sacrifice has permeated the soil of this 'New World'.
In addition to using certain species of plants, a xeriscape employs efficient irrigation that allows water to permeate the soil before running off and groups plants with similar water requirements.
In contaminated areas, Cd permeates the soil and water supply, reaching levels as high as 0.21 mg/kg and approximately 1.9 μM in foodstuffs (Yan et al. 2007).
Soil- and waterborne arsenic does not readily permeate the skin, though soil can be a key source of exposure in young children who show significant hand-to-mouth activity.
Faeces from the duck ponds permeated the local soil and seeped into the cottages through cracks in the floors.
While the removal of the Confederate flag and statues of Confederate war heroes symbolizing slavery and racial apartheid is a step forward, it does not confront the deeper historical national blight of slavery and the structural and cultural inequalities and racial seeds from our shared past that still permeate the tainted soil of our nation today.
A rain garden is a garden, planted in a slight depression in the ground, that collects water and allows it to gradually permeate into the soil.
