Tag: Soil
Why the price of your favorite chocolate will continue to rise
Narcisa Pricope, Mississippi State University
Valentine’s Day often conjures images of chocolates and romance. But the crop behind this...
Good flooding? Scientists use rice cultivation to preserve soil in Florida’s...
Jehangir Bhadha, University of Florida
Each summer, nearly 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares) of rice is cultivated in the Florida...
Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow – here’s...
Matt Kasson, West Virginia University
With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the...
What is dirt? There’s a whole wriggling world alive in the...
Brian Darby, University of North Dakota
Curious Kids is a series for children of all...
What is dirt? There’s a whole wriggling world alive in the...
Brian Darby, University of North Dakota
Curious Kids is a series for children of all...
Your microbes live on after you die − a microbiologist explains...
Jennifer DeBruyn, University of Tennessee
Each human body contains a complex community of trillions of microorganisms that are important...
Sandcastle engineering – a geotechnical engineer explains how water, air and...
Joseph Scalia, Colorado State University
If you want to understand why some sandcastles are tall and have intricate structures...
Tropical forests can recover surprisingly quickly on deforested lands – and...
Robin Chazdon, University of Connecticut; Bruno Hérault, Cirad; Catarina Conte Jakovac, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, and Lourens Poorter, Wageningen University
EXPLORING NATURE
Supreme Court sides with San Francisco, requiring EPA to set specific...
Robin Kundis Craig, University of Kansas
The U.S. Supreme Court has limited how flexible the Environmental Protection Agency and...
