From lifelong farmers to backyard gardeners, most plant-lovers know that adding organic matter to a field, vegetable plot or flowerpot increases the soil’s moisture. Now, for the first time, ...

Firefighters have been fighting Dragon Bravo Fire at the Grand Canyon since July 4, but it has been intensifying due to unfavorable weather conditions. Lisa Jennings, a fire information officer with ...

Understanding how communities of microbes living in the soil respond to changes in the environment – such as temperature, moisture, acidity – is critical if we want to understand how these microbiomes ...

There is hardly a day or maybe a few days when a newscast doesn’t report something on “climate change”, as if it were something new. Yes, we need to be good stewards of the earth we have been given to ...

Nanoplastics are an increasing threat to the ecosystem; however, their mobility in the soil is still underexplored. Against this backdrop, researchers investigated the adsorption and aggregation ...

A new study published in Forest Ecosystems sheds light on how carbon is stored in forest soils across eastern China, offering valuable insights into forest carbon sequestration and its role in climate ...

University of Michigan researchers may have found a new geological mechanism for creating gold deposits on Earth. This new theory combines numerical modeling with field observations and could be used ...

Walking down Elmore Mountain this fall, I sensed a change around me while watching my feet and the rocks and roots that I needed to step on or over. Looking up, I saw I’d left the spruce and fir ...