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Mar. 16, 2022 — Dry, hot regions are difficult places to grow plants because the soil dries out quickly. As a result, farmers in arid and semi-arid regions irrigate their fields with buried networks of irrigation ...
July 12, 2022 — The results singled out growing-degree days as the most important climatic factor and water holding capacity as the most influential soil property for crop-yield ...
May 25, 2022 — As Australia continues to mop up after one of the wettest years on record, councils might want to consider a new flood mitigation strategy -- permeable pavements to suit specific soil and rainfall ...
May 25, 2021 — After a wildfire, soils in burned areas often become water repellent, leading to increased erosion and flooding after rainfall events - a phenomenon that many scientists have attributed to smoke and ...
Jan. 9, 2023 — Tropical forests recovering from logging are sources of carbon for years afterwards, contrary to previous assumptions, finds a new ...
Sep. 19, 2022 — Researchers use satellites to measure soil moisture around certain crops to solve a long-standing mystery about how water impacts agricultural production. The researchers found that models using soil ...
July 18, 2022 — Scientists have discovered how to design cereal roots able to continue growing in hard soils by altering their ability to penetrate, enabling roots to access sources of water deeper in soil, and ...
Feb. 15, 2021 — More than one-third of the Corn Belt in the Midwest - nearly 100 million acres - has completely lost its carbon-rich topsoil, according to new research that indicates the U.S. Department of ...
July 5, 2022 — Ploughing and tilling on hilly slopes is causing farm soils to thin and threatens future crop yields, a new study finds. Scientists behind the study argue that unless farmers stop tilling hill ...
Jan. 27, 2021 — Much of the earth's carbon is trapped in soil, and scientists have assumed that potential climate-warming compounds would safely stay there for centuries. But new research shows that carbon ...
