soil
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The Dodgers needed a pivotal win on home soil against the Brewers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Weingart also sees maintaining healthy soil, with limited weed growth competing for water, as an important way of helping vines cope with extreme heat and drought.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
FLS said the fungus was among the "first colonisers" of burned ground and played a role in breaking down carbon and preventing soil erosion.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Critics have argued that organic material detected in fossils could have entered the specimens much later from microbes, soil, handling, or other environmental sources.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Beneath a river, there can be anything—rocky terrain, narrow caves, shallow soil, seemingly no soil at all.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Vocabulary lists containing soil
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Can You Dig It? Words for Dirt and Soil
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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