Simulated lunar dirt can be turned into extremely durable structures, potentially paving the way to more sustainable and cost-effective space missions, a new study suggests. Using a special laser 3D ...

Scientists in northwestern China are releasing soil "seed" into arid desert areas to form artificial biological soil crusts, ...

Dining on the moon or Mars might seem like a fantasy reserved for science fiction, but researchers are investigating how it could become a reality. Their efforts to recycle plant and human waste into ...

Chinese scientists spray lab-grown cyanobacteria onto desert sand to create fertile farmable soil in 10 months, reducing wind ...

The work is integrated into China’s broader Three-North Shelter Forest Program, also known as the Great Green Wall, launched in 1978 to reduce sandstorms and erosion. The Ningxia Hui region plans to ...

Johns Hopkins scientists say they have used 3D imaging, special microscopes and artificial intelligence (AI) programs to construct new maps of mouse brains showing a precise location of more than 10 ...

Changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) critically influence the future climate. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are critical regulators of SOC dynamics, yet the impacts of climate-induced changes, ...

Understanding the influence of soil-forming factors and processes in ornithogenic soils is important to predict impacts of climate change on Antarctic ecosystems. Herein, we analyzed the ...

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...

Over three days in late March, four Los Angeles Times environment reporters and an editor fanned out across the Eaton and Palisades burn scars to collect 40 soil samples from residential properties: ...

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. Sampling sites were evenly distributed throughout the study ...