When a rainstorm finally comes after long periods of drought, you celebrate that your plants' roots finally have moisture. Dig down an inch or so, and the soil is still bone dry. How can that be, and ...

Since the 1980s, scientists have known fine roots (< 2 mm) are critical to ecosystem carbon cycling, with research long suggesting their contribution to soil carbon accrual may exceed that of ...

A collaboration between scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Greifswald in Germany has uncovered a powerful new way volcanoes give life to the Earth: ...

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U2 guitarist David Howell Evans, known as the Edge, has been announced as the co-founder of a new soil regeneration company called Oath, which uses artificial intelligence to find innovative methods ...

Frustrated citizens, joined by members of Soil of Africa, marched to the department's head office in Tshwane on Monday, protesting against what they say are thousands of IDs that have been unfairly ...

A new phase of soil sampling is taking place on land where a potentially cancer-causing substance has been found. Wyre District Council said samples of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) were found in a ...

Most of us weren’t around to see the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But a mixture of drought and poor farming practices saw the topsoil of a half dozen states stripped away. Picture the dusty and desolate ...

Afghanistan's Taliban Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi (L) addressing press in New Delhi. (PTI) Taliban Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi on Friday warned Pakistan not to test their patience by ...

US President Donald Trump is ramping up efforts to deploy the National Guard in more cities across the country to combat what he claims is a "war from within". In recent days, his administration has ...