New research shows how changing rainfall speeds up soil carbon loss and how biochar helps soil cope with stress.

The Outside Story shows how needle-thin columns of ice protruding from the ground are formed from the liquid between soil particles.

It is a real problem: Microplastic particles are everywhere. Now a team has developed a method that allows it for the first time to precisely localise microplastic particles in the soil. The 3D ...

Soil contaminated with harmful perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) is difficult to clean, a complete remediation is often not possible. Perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl ...

Last month’s relentlessly rainy and all-time-wettest May hammered home why well drained soil is so important to good plant growth. So much yard soil in southcentral Pennsylvania is either naturally ...