Salt, microplastics, and rising temperatures are silently degrading urban soil health, and weakening the resilience of cities ...

An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands ...

Scientists funded by NASA have successfully grown plants in actual lunar soil for the first time. Using tiny samples ...

Locust swarms can wipe out crops across entire regions, threatening food supplies and livelihoods. Now, scientists working ...

Discover why healthy soil is vital for our food supply, climate, and future, and how human actions—like intensive agriculture, deforestation, and pollution—are causing rapid soil degradation.

The soil you should use to grow pits must be biologically active. In other words, use something that has compost in it or try with just compost alone. Use a suitable container, or one with ample ...

New research shows tropical forests can recover twice as fast after deforestation when their soils contain enough nitrogen.

At the Challenger Learning Center of the Twin Tier Region in Allegany, students are experiencing science, technology, ...

Research shows that lunar soil could be transformed into conductive materials for electronics manufactured on the moon.

"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 about locusts.

Beyond just personnel and equipment, NASA's upcoming crewed trip to the Moon will bring more. A modest collection of historic ...

A new approach to farming is taking root at Clemson University, and it’s changing the way researchers think about growing ...