County residents and experts are turning to nature-based methods like bioremediation to address long-standing and ...

Industrial farming practices often deplete the soil of important nutrients and minerals, leaving farmers to rely on ...

The organic phase (bottom layer) was collected with ... their limited availability reduces the risk of soil contamination following EOM application. The pyrolysis of sludge resulted in the almost ...

Soil From the Moon's Far Side Suggests Drier Conditions Than the Side Facing Earth CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth’s Critical Zone, deep soil layers that help purify groundwater. As water filters through this zone, these microbes break down leftover ...

In the summer and winter, the lakes separate into distinct temperature layers: warmer at the surface in summer and colder in winter. It's why ice forms at the surface during winter and doesn't sink.

The internship students, who underwent six months of intensive training, were trained in the areas of soil-less and open farming, animal husbandry and innovative agriculture among other areas.

The mouths of the sinkholes are conical in shape, indicating that the soil layers have collapsed vertically into a void below. The sinkholes were caused by seismic vibrations from the earthquake, ...

Soil includes six layers: the organic layer, topsoil, eluviation layer, subsoil, parent rock and bedrock. When I was a kid, I remember sitting in the field attempting to dig my way to the center ...

To test this idea, the researchers conducted experiments using an artificial heat source placed in surface soil layers. They measured how heat spreads, how fast it moves, and how long it persists ...