Two related discoveries detailing nanocrystalline mineral formation and dynamics have broad implications for managing nuclear ...

“Soil Science: The Dirt on Dirt,” a new class and lab — ERT 404LLB and ERT 504, respectively — in the Department of Earth Sciences brings together students from varying disciplines to unearth soil’s ...

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 ...

The Aravalli Hills look modest today but they sit on some of the oldest and most studied rocks in India. Geologists care about them because they preserve a long record of how a piece of the earth’s ...

"They're very destructive when there's a lot of them, but one-on-one, what's not to love?" says Arianne Cease. She's talking ...

Trees are the lifeblood of the forest. While alive, they form their body; as snags (standing dead trees), they provide ...

Life on Earth relies upon an astonishingly short list of elements. Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen compose the essential ...

At the launch of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung’s updated Soil Atlas 2025, experts highlighted growing soil degradation, rapid ...

The sudden collapse of a sinkhole in Melbourne's north-east left residents shocked on Tuesday. Here's an explanation of how ...

Tea House Senkutsu is reached after walking down a wide moss-covered pathway that cuts through the lushly forested garden ...

University of Oregon researchers say wildfires can form cancer-causing compounds in the soils they burn through.

A state appeals court is being asked to dismiss felony voter misconduct charges against an Alaska resident born in American ...