He dried the soil and weighed it, showing that the soil was almost the same mass. He concluded that the tree grew by drinking ...

Though a founding concept of ecology suggests that the physical environment determines where organisms can survive, modern ...

A team of scientists at NASA have confirmed how Mars' 'spider' formations are carved by carbon dioxide. They were first ...

Tests on Earth appear to confirm how the Red Planet’s spider-shaped geologic formations are carved by carbon dioxide.

In their experiments, researchers used a specialized wine-barrel-size chamber to replicate the low-pressure and cold ...

Colorado is expanding its soil health program, but costly barriers still stand in the way of many interested farmers and ...

Though a founding concept of ecology suggests that the physical environment determines where organisms can survive, modern scientists have suspected there is more to the story of how microbial ...

Canopy gaps in a mixed floodplain forest have a direct effect on forest soil temperature and moisture, but only have a minor impact on soil biological activity.

A VF tire under an agricultural trailer primarily results in lower soil pressure in the upper soil layer. The deeper you look ...

So don’t think of pH as a scary word. Rather, think of it as the teeter-totter of garden soil. Let’s say you test your soil ...

Gaps in the forest stand, whether caused by silvicultural intervention or by the death of large trees, can play a central ...

Infrastructures often suffer severe damage due to geotechnical hazards of both natural kinds such as floods or earthquakes ...