Every year, millions suffer, and thousands lose their lives to infections that were once easily treatable with the right dose ...

A field planted with cereal rye, one of the most common cover crops in Iowa. Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons ...

Tropical forests exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other terrestrial biome, meaning that even a relatively small shift in the balance of carbon uptake and release there could have a big ...

As pressures mount on Kenyan coffee, integrated nutrient management – guided by portable soil testing – is helping farmers ...

After nearly four decades, the world's longest-running soil warming experiment is revealing a surprising result: even "stable ...

A China-based research team conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 147 studies on how solar PV systems alter land ...

A multidisciplinary team -- engineers, soil scientists, and biologists -- digs in with them for a deeper look at what happens to the soil underneath a decomposing body. Forensic researchers at UT ...

A new study found pesticide residues in 70% of soil samples across 26 European countries, making contamination the second-strongest factor shaping soil biodiversity after basic soil properties. The ...

Scientists have discovered, for the first time how root cells respond to their complex soil environment revealing that roots actively sense their microenvironment and mount precise, cell-specific ...

The conversion of Brazil's native biomes into agricultural areas has resulted in an estimated loss of 1.4 billion tons of ...