This mini mare, named Mooch, is being presented to the surgery service for a problem in her uterus: an abnormal accumulation of fluid.

he microbes found in vermicompost can help protect plants from disease. Using line animation and video microscopy, we describe how the plant pathogen, pythium aphanidermatum is unable to infect a germinating cucumber seed planted in a potting mix containing vermicompost.

Water is found everywhere on earth, it’s essential for life. It’s unique combination of physical properties are essential to the dynamics of all of earth’s systems. One of these properties that’s important to our story today is that water dissolves many many materials.
Water plays an important role in many of the Earth’s deep processes with the ability to penetrate even the smallest places and transport dissolved materials everywhere and anywhere underground.