Bananas from the tropics, apples from temperate zones, pineapples from volcanic islands—fruits grow where climate, soil, and ...

Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These ...

The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture.

An unknown group of microbes is thriving in Earth's deep soil and they’re quietly helping to clean the water that becomes our ...

How can technology help map the soil (better), and what role can soil scans and scanners play in this? What is possible?

Black mustard grows quickly and will soon be sending out seeds that could easily invade the pristine soil on the structure. But in this matter, the builders of the world’s largest wildlife ...

The new study led by the UK Center for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) has shown that a large contrast in soil moisture levels over a range of hundreds of kilometers results in atmospheric changes ...

It’s a global problem, and we often wonder how we can make a difference. Surprisingly, the answer might be right beneath our feet: the soil. What is soil, really? Soil is the top layer of the earth ...