Many toxic chemicals are hidden in soil and pose a risk to human, animal, and plant health. But a team of researchers has discovered a new approach that detects these polluting compounds, even if they ...

Excavated soil from construction sites usually ends up in landfills, but it has great potential. Researchers at the Technical ...

Scientists know iron oxide minerals store large amounts of carbon in soils, but lack a detailed, quantitative understanding of the specific chemical mechanisms that allow them to bind such a wide ...

Millions of people die every year from antibiotic-resistant infections or from the complications of those infections, and the problem is only expected to get worse as pathogenic bacteria continue to ...

Researchers collected soil samples from Eight Dollar Mountain in southwest Oregon, an area rich in a typically benign compound called chromium III. But when the researchers simulated a ...

Chief strategy officer Tim Weaver explains the critical role soil plays not just in crop production but across boardrooms and ...

A recent study by an interdisciplinary research team shows how a soil bacterium can become a source of inspiration in the search of new active substances. Genomic analyses of the plant pathogen ...

1. In Coloma sand an application of 2 p.p.m. of the sodium salt of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (sodium 2,4-D) killed from 95% to 98% of all weed seed present in the soil, while 8 or 16 p.p.m. made ...

New research shows how changing rainfall speeds up soil carbon loss and how biochar helps soil cope with stress.

Much of the earth's carbon is trapped in soil, and scientists have assumed that potential climate-warming compounds would safely stay there for centuries. But new research shows that carbon molecules ...