Made from faux Martian and lunar soil, a new sulfur-based compound could also lead to faster construction on Earth.
A new doctoral thesis provides valuable insights into the microbiology of acid sulfate soils, sometimes dubbed "the nastiest ...
Climate change has made great swaths of the planet's land drier and saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access ...
Depleted soil leads to reduced yields, forcing farmers to rely on fertilizers that raise food production costs, consumer prices.
A worm burrows its way through the dark earth, ingesting particles of soil and expelling nutrient-rich casts in a constant forage for food. Charles Darwin described earthworms as one of the most ...
When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...
Vertical distribution of roots along a soil toposequence in the New Jersey pinelands ... Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 35, 313-347 (2007). [IPCC] Intergovernmental Panel on ...