Choosing the right cover crop to protect the soil
Credit: Dennis Bowman Farmers around the world are keen to protect their most important asset: their soil. The soil supports ...
Tag: Geology/Soil
Evergreen needles act as air quality monitors
Measuring magnetic particles on needles reveals particulate air pollutionCredit: Paul Gabrielsen/University of Utah Every tree, even an evergreen, can be ...
Multi-university effort to study the Earth’s hidden critical zone- NSF grant
Credit: Virginia Tech Look out your window or step outside and look around you. Depending on where you live, you're ...
How do giraffes and elephants alter the African Savanna landscape?
Credit: Duncan Kimuyu As they roam around the African savanna in search for food, giraffes and elephants alter the diversity ...
Global study reveals time running out for many soils – but conservation measures can help
A major new international study has provided a first worldwide insight into how soil erosion may be affecting the longevity ...
Global warming threatens soil phosphorus, says a soil scientist from RUDN University
Credit: RUDN University A soil scientist from RUDN University found out that the resources of organic phosphorus in the soils ...
Coming up for air: Extinct sea scorpions could breathe out of water, fossil detective unveils
Credit: James Lamsdell Scientists have long debated the respiratory workings of sea scorpions, but a new discovery by a West ...
Iron is to blame for carbon dioxide emissions from soil, says a soil scientists from RUDN
Credit: RUDN University Iron minerals and bacteria can be the main agents of carbon dioxide emissions from the soil. A ...
Japan’s geologic history in question after discovery of metamorphic rock microdiamonds
a: Geological zone in western Japan. The blue-green part is the Sanbagawa belt that crosses mainland Japan. The Nishisonogi metamorphic ...
Drone survey reveals large earthwork at ancestral Wichita site in Kansas
Results show possible council circle at what may be Etzanoa near WichitaCredit: Images by Jesse Casana, Elise Jakoby Laugier, and ...
Fossil trees on Peru’s Central Andean Plateau tell a tale of dramatic environmental change
Credit: Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute On an expedition to the Central Andean Plateau, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical ...
Failures of Germany’s largest cliff coast sensed by seismometers
Dry summers are increasing the risk of large cliff collapsesCredit: photo: Kristen Cook, GFZ The ten km long, bright white ...
Char application restores soil carbon and productivity
Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Kaiser. Intensively tilled soils have lost up to 50% of their original C with the ...
Meteorite strikes may create unexpected form of silica
When a meteorite hurtles through the atmosphere and crashes to Earth, how does its violent impact alter the minerals found ...
Heavy metals make soil enzymes 3 times weaker, says a soil scientist from RUDN University
Credit: RUDN Heavy metals suppress enzyme activity in the soil by 3-3.5 times and have especially prominent effect on the ...
Getting to the root of the problem
Credit: James Burridge Roots play a vital role in crop plants. They take up water and nutrients for the plant ...
New approach soft material flow may yield way to new materials, disaster prediction
Credit: Photo courtesy U.S. Geology Survey CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- How does toothpaste stay in its tube and not ooze out ...
UM researchers receive major grant to study melting of famous glacier
Credit: Martin Truffer, University of Alaska Fairbanks MISSOULA - The National Science Foundation has awarded researchers at the University of ...
The age of the Earth’s inner core revised
Credit: NASA/ Gary A.Glatzmaier By creating conditions akin to the center of the Earth inside a laboratory chamber, researchers have ...
Water contaminant could have neurotoxic effects on children
Are those relying on private well water potentially at greater risk?Credit: (Samantha Ying/UCR) Manganese isn't considered a major water contaminant ...
