Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are collaborating with researchers at UT San Antonio to study how space ...

Pittsburgh, Pa., USA: Earthworms, the hardworking invertebrates that grace the upper layers of soil, have long been considered helpful in our home gardens. Earthworms are prolific munchers, grinding ...

This study is conducted by a joint team from Chinese Academy of Sciences. They use aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Electron-energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and scanning ...

The total area of global karst regions is approximately 22 million square kilometers, accounting for roughly 15% of the Earth's land surface. These regions ...

Traditional row-crop agriculture releases sizable amounts of soil-derived carbon to the atmosphere as CO 2, a greenhouse gas that is a primary driver of climate change. With enhanced weathering, ...

ERW typically employs rocks rich in silicates that can help convert CO 2 into bicarbonate. These bicarbonate ions are washed ...

In the wake of a wildfire, a vital micronutrient can become a toxic heavy metal—and could eventually make its way into ...

Could blending of crushed rock with arable soil lower global temperatures? Researchers study global warming events from 40 and 56 million years ago to find answers. The Earth is getting hotter and ...

On a banana plantation in rural Australia, a second-generation farming family spreads crushed volcanic rock between rows of ripening fruit. Eight thousand kilometers away, two young men in central ...

By analyzing just a few grains of returned samples from the Apollo missions, researchers gained important insights into the evolution of the lunar surface shaped by solar wind and micrometeoroid ...