A review from Murdoch University has stressed that agricultural soils now hold around 23 times more microplastics than oceans ...

The movement is slow — sinking on the scale of millimeters per year in the United States — but the effects accumulate over ...

Petroleum-contaminated soil deposited at the Mile 34 gravel pit two decades ago is slated for state cleanup, although the ...

Slopes greater than ten percent are better suited to other practices, like terracing.

Starting in the mid-20th century, humans began to move around more soil than the natural forces ... has written in Something New Under the Sun (2000). Land art took off at around the same time ...

Wetlands are essential ecosystems that provide a variety of ecological functions, including carbon sequestration, water ...

Only a 5 percent area is marked not degraded, in an illustration by the Save Soil movement, which shows all other areas of land on the globe suffering the same damage. "This does not just affect ...

Against this backdrop, researchers investigated the adsorption and aggregation behavior of nanoplastics in different types of soil under different pH conditions. The study offers new perspectives ...

This type of fertile soil, referred to as “dark earth” or “black earth ... of voices within Ukraine’s allies that would be willing to cede vast areas of land to Russia in order to achieve peace or at ...

Harvesters collect rice from black soil ... under natural conditions," said Jia Zhongjun, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Jia is among the experts who have introduced new land ...

To understand the behavior of the nanoplastics under different soil conditions, the researchers used two different types of soil: andosol (volcanic soil) and fine sand. "Both andosol and fine sand ...