Bauxite residue, the byproduct of aluminum production, represents one of the most pressing global environmental challenges, with billions of tons stored in vast tailing dams. Its extreme alkalinity ...

March is when gardeners' fingers start to really twitch. The sun's warmth and patches of bare earth make us yearn for the ...

"The information and the analysis presented here is an attempt to set trends of research in the direction of preventative and creative use of the plant-soil interface"--Back cover. Fundamentals of ...

I would like to introduce the 11th soil order, the ultisols. Ultisols (from Latin ultimus, for “last”) are generally formed from fairly intense weathering processes. During the intense weathering of ...

Southwest Research Institute collaborated with UT San Antonio to analyze lunar soil samples and determine the effects of space weathering on their far-ultraviolet reflectance. SwRI measured the ...

Throughout human history, our relationship with the soil has affected our ability to cultivate crops and influenced the success of civilizations. This relationship between humans, the earth, and food ...

New measurements from New Zealand’s Southern Alps show that rock can transform into soil more than twice as fast as previously believed possible. The results show that soil production and weathering ...