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Is your Soil Healthy? Just listen to it ...

 
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How listening to your soil can tell you about it:

“You can actually use sound to listen to the soil, and get an indication of soil health, based on the little critters moving around,” said Jake Robinson, a microbial ecologist at Flinders University in Australia.





https://grist.org/science/ecoacoustics-sound-soil-restoration/
 
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This is really cool. The next thing you know, there are going to be bands touring with soil sounds.  Who's in your band? Well, two flagellates, an amoeba, 3 protozoa, and a really fun guy.

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