Decontamination of polluted sites, often many hectares in scale, is costly and in itself can have a high environmental impact

Lab originally built for students in 1963 will be transformed into a 21^st century learning environment

Global moisture levels study receives a $280,000 boost from the Canadian Space Agency.

Study shows how much enters air from plants, soil, surface water.

A University of Florida scientist has developed a fertilizer for palm trees that should keep them healthy and reduce water pollution..

When we drive past sunny fields of grapes, we might think we're seeing how they’re doing—but much more is going on invisible to the human eye: vines and roots teeming with bacteria, viruses and fungi that all impact how those grapes will grow.

Using natural soil components to trap pollutants will allow producers to control soil contaminants and reuse draining water while protecting their agricultural crops, according to Mohamed Elsayed, a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar in the chemistry and biochemistry department.

Trace elements encased in mountaintop ice predate industrial revolution by more than 200 years.

Rock soil droplets formed by heating most likely came from Stone Age house fires and not from a disastrous cosmic impact 12,900 years ago, according to new research from the University of California, Davis. The study, of soil from Syria, is the latest to discredit the controversial theory that a cosmic impact triggered the Younger Dryas cold period.

Ames Laboratory scientists use genetic markers to discover the rhizosphere.