HOUSTON – (May 9, 2025) – A team of researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine has developed a new strategy for identifying hazardous pollutants in soil, even ones that have never ...

What is needed for plants to grow? How might you select which plants would be best to reforest a desert? How long do you think it might take to go from a desert to a forest? What positive and negative ...

Charlene Janion-Scheepers receives funding from the National Research Foundation (South Africa). Although soils are vital for agriculture, biodiversity and clean water, this below-ground world is ...

A centuries-old concept in soil science has recently been thrown out. Yet it remains a key ingredient in everything from climate models to advanced carbon-capture projects. The hope was that the soil ...

Explore how early American colonists learned soil stewardship the hard way. Discover the impacts of livestock, deforestation, ...