All Articles Tagged As: soil

First nanoscale image of soil reveals an 'incredible' variety (5/7/2008)

Knowing the structure and detailed composition of soil carbon could provide a better understanding of the chemical processes that cycle organic matter in soil. ...> Full Article

Mapping Earth's soil moisture (5/1/2008)

Science team designing a NASA satellite mission to collect global soil moisture measurements and other data seen as key to improving weather, flood and drought forecasts and predictions of agricultural productivity and climate change. ...> Full Article

Are existing large-scale simulations of water dynamics wrong? (3/13/2008)

Researchers find that a much smaller spatial resolution should be used for modeling soil water ...> Full Article

Large Source of Nitrate, a Nutrient and Potential Water Contaminant, Found in Near-Surface Desert Soils (3/3/2008)

Disruption of desert soil surface could result in wind erosion of nitrate-rich soil ...> Full Article

New Antarctica research season kicks off (12/3/2007)

The approach of winter in the northern hemisphere means that summer is coming to Antarctica - still bitterly cold, but just warm enough to let scientists make progress on ongoing studies. ...> Full Article