The city housing authority insists that its contractor followed proper protocols while conducting work at the Jacob Riis Houses in East Harlem.

For decades, families in communities around Johannesburg have been living close to huge gold mining waste dumps. For many ...

600 m long, 25 m to 100 m wide, west-southwest trending, multi-element (gold-zinc-copper-arsenic) soil anomaly that remains ...

Ancient Moon dust, meteorite traces and Apollo samples are helping NASA scientists rethink where Earth’s water truly came ...

A recent North Dakota State University study concluded that every six inches of topsoil lost costs the farmer over $6,600 to ...

For more than 30 years the murder of Debe Atrops in suburban Oregon remained unsolved. Then, an Oregon cold case team took a ...

Nitrogen rich soils in China’s rice paddies could help farmers grow the same amount of rice with less fertilizer, if we can ...

The “dirt” is topsoil that has moved due to wind erosion in the winter months and is deposited on top of the snow. On a cold ...

A new global study shows that increasing soil salinity is systematically reshaping the storage and distribution of soil ...

Checking the soil: Bees N Blooms hosts a soil testing workshop from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Feb. 7 at 3883 Petaluma Hill Road.

With a synchronized tap from run-of-the-mill hammers on metal plates resting on the ground, researchers kneeling in nine fields across four continents believe they’ve hit upon more than just the earth ...

Bangladesh’s winter harvest brings peak vegetable supply — and peak exposure to industrial heavy metals — as dry-season conditions concentrate contamination in soil and food ...