Soil contamination poses escalating risks to ecosystems and public health through persistent pollutants such as heavy metals (e.g., cadmium, lead), emerging ...

Wildflowers growing on land previously used for buildings and factories can accumulate lead, arsenic, and other metal ...

Increased soil salinity can reduce damage from prominent tomato pests such as the tomato fruitworm, according to researchers ...

New research has found that brown rice has a higher concentration of arsenic than white rice in the U.S.—affirming decades of similar findings around the toxic metal’s presence in the otherwise ...

Looking for some indoor plants to clean and purify air? The ideal bedroom plants are those that are soft in appearance with ...

Wildflowers growing on land previously used for buildings and factories can accumulate lead, arsenic and other metal ...

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Scott Winton conducted three years of extensive fieldwork to develop the first data-driven map of both newly documented and predicted peatlands across ...

Crop rotation for annual vegetables can reduce disease and pest pressure, improve soil health and boost overall crop ...

Nanoplastics behave differently in sand and volcanic soils. Their movement and clumping change with pH levels.

Soil salinity is a global problem that greatly restricts agriculture production, and salt stress is one of the traditional ...

As soil organic matter (SOM) is broken down, the S in the organic forms is converted (mineralized) to sulfate-sulfur (written as SO 4-S). Sulfate-sulfur is the only form of S that is absorbed by plant ...

"Seventy percent of a strawberry plant’s roots are in the top 3 inches of soil. Soil (even cold soil) will protect the shallow roots from freezing temperatures, but frost can damage tender ...