Agricultural fertilizers are critical for feeding the world's population, restoring soil fertility and sustaining crops. Excessive and inefficient use of those resources can present an environmental ...

Results indicate that metal levels detected in Santa Cruz County are significantly lower than samples collected in Monterey ...

Good organic amendments for garden soils include wood byproducts such as sawdust and bark mulch, rotted manure, grass or ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

On the other hand, the plot of tilled soil didn’t infiltrate as much water compared to the plot from nature. Cotter said ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer A growing body of research has found microplastics—tiny plastic particles—in nearly every organ ...

Residents of an English village were evacuated as a large sinkhole swallowed parts of the town’s main street up to the edge ...

Why do avalanches start to slide? And what happens inside the "pile of snow?" If you ask yourself these questions, you are ...

Cleaner, more pure water backscatters light in the blue range, which makes it look blue. One famous example is Crater Lake in ...

Physicists measure the mass of subatomic particles in units called electron volts, or eV. According to theory, the W boson ...

Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human intestinal cells absorb, according to two new studies from Rutgers Health ...

Rutgers Health researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides ...