New research shows tropical forests can recover twice as fast after deforestation when their soils contain enough nitrogen.

As climate extremes intensify, adaptation debates favor new technologies. Terraces in the Philippines and Morocco show how ...

Tea House Senkutsu is reached after walking down a wide moss-covered pathway that cuts through the lushly forested garden ...

An innovative product with the potential to replace polymers used in soil fertilizers is being developed in São Carlos in the ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study.

“Soil Science: The Dirt on Dirt,” a new class and lab — ERT 404LLB and ERT 504, respectively — in the Department of Earth Sciences brings together students from varying disciplines to unearth soil’s ...

Trees are the lifeblood of the forest. While alive, they form their body; as snags (standing dead trees), they provide ...

Keibul Lamjao National Park, located in Manipur’s Loktak Lake, holds a distinction unmatched anywhere else in the world. It ...

When a critter has no discernible front or back and is blind to shape, it unsettles our grasp of form and function.

About 90 years ago, American farmers in the Great Plains had so ravaged the thin soil there that a series of droughts turned ...

Several years ago, I had the chance to drive around the Dakotas and was struck by the haunting beauty and the sheer immensity ...