A Chinese-foreign research team has discovered that soil invertebrates — such as termites, ants, and earthworms — play a ...

Parasites are organisms that derive nourishment and protection from other living organisms, and they can cause diseases in ...

Eukaryotic microorganisms, or protists, are essential ecological agents that populate various environments like aquatic and ...

Turfgrass—including sports fields, roadside ditches and residential lawns—makes up 40 million acres of the United States' ...

For more than 150 years, the 14th Amendment of the Constitution has granted automatic citizenship to any person born on US soil. As the courts moved to temporarily block his order, various media ...

The samples are some of the best evidence to date that such space rocks may have seeded early Earth with the raw ingredients that fostered the emergence of living organisms. The samples, retrieved by ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that provides an entire ecosystem on which plants and animals have relied for ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Soil contains mineral particles, air, water, living organisms and decaying organic matter. The mineral portion of the soil contains tiny ...

This indicates that the bioavailability of DDT to soil organisms had been reduced—meaning that the soil had become less toxic, with a lower risk of DDT spreading via bioaccumulation in the food ...

We found that biochar binds DDT efficiently, so that it is not taken up by soil organisms," says Paul Drenning, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at ...

within” one organism. What makes Pando particularly remarkable is its contribution to environmental health. Its dense root system prevents soil erosion, retains water and helps regulate the ...