A new smart platform invented by Purdue University researchers to wirelessly monitor subsoil health could change the landscape of agricultural sensing systems. The invention addresses a critical need ...

Biocrusts, known as the "desert skin," includes communities of cyanobacteria, algae, fungi, bacteria, lichen, and mosses. They can mediate both the physical and biological environments of dryland ...

Continuous potassium (K) removal without replenishment is progressively mining Argentinean soils. Our goals were to evaluate the sensitivity of soil-K to K budgets, quantify soil-K changes over time ...

Surface 1 and subsoil 2,3,4 placement of nutrient-rich organic amendments has been used as a technique to improve plant productivity on agricultural soils characterized by low organic matter, poor ...

Conservation agriculture sounds like a great way to protect our environment. It promises to help keep the soil healthy, with more carbon locked in the ground, and less fertilizer runoff. But the ...

Sand capping golf course fairways is a trend driven by the need for improved turfgrass growing and playing conditions, especially on areas where low-quality irrigation water and fine-textured soils ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Despite drier than typical conditions last week in Iowa, the abundant rainfall of ...

Madeleine Stone receives funding from The National Science Foundation. It’s no exaggeration to say the tropics drive our planet’s carbon cycle – the constant transfer of carbon back and forth, on a ...

The agreement between Ukraine and the United States does not provide for the transfer of subsoil use rights or any property rights. Source: Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for ...