When Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off in January, it will carry the Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM) experiment, which studies soil behavior under conditions that cannot be duplicated on Earth — ...

Warming soils may be unlocking carbon once considered permanent, releasing additional CO 2 into the atmosphere. This subtle ...

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tilled using farm equipment or tractors. However, seismologists have conducted sound wave-based soil monitoring and have suggested that over-tilling the soil may actually have a negative impact on it.

Since 2020, University of Vermont Extension has been involved in a unique experiment on a privately-owned farm in the St.

American forests are important sources of carbon sequestration, storing millions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. However, a unique experiment led by Peter Reich, University of Michigan professor ...

Local ranchers are hoping a soil health experiment will reveal clues about how they can better manage their land under dry conditions as the Colorado River basin continues to struggle under the ...

When farmland is returned to the wild, it shows a striking ability to hold onto the carbon that built up in farm soils over time, retaining this stock for 30 years or more, a unique, long-term study ...

The University of Delaware’s Rodrigo Vargas is a co-principal investigator on a new $18.9 million National Science Foundation grant to study soil at depths greater than anywhere else in the world. The ...