Geology/Soil

Credit: Deborah Samac Has anyone ever told you to eat a banana when you have a muscle cramp or eye twitch? That's because bananas have potassium. Potassium is an important nutrient for humans, and an even more important…

Award will be presented in mid-October at society's annual conferenceCredit: Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Geoscience engineer Dylan Moriarty has been named the 2019 Most Promising Engineer or Scientist by the American Indian Science…

Credit: Sekhar Bhattacharyya/Penn State Improving ventilation in underground mines with large openings is the focus of a new project funded by the Center for Disease Control's Office of Mine Safety and Health Research. Penn State…

Much of vegetation loss is due to private gardens being paved over or built onCredit: CEH Edinburgh is losing the equivalent of around 15 football pitches of green land each year, much of which is due to private garden areas being…

Cracks in the desert floor appear random to the untrained eye, even beautifully so, but the mathematics governing patterns of dried clay turn out to be predictable--and useful in designing advanced materials. In a pair of new studies…

Purple algae are making the western Greenland Ice Sheet melt faster, as the algae darken the ice surface and make it absorb more sunlightCredit: Laura Halbach The ERC (European Research Council) has awarded an €11 million Euro Synergy…

Credit: Photo by Genevieve Goebel A Dartmouth-led study examining carbon stocks in an actively managed mixed wood forest in New Hampshire finds that places with more trees have more carbon stored in both the trees and the soil.…

Credit: MaxPixel DURHAM, N.H.--As the popular saying goes, "winter is coming," but is it? Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found clear signs of a decline in frost days, snow covered days and other indicators of…

First African evidence to support hypothesis of an asteroid impact that contributed to the extinction of large animals 12,800 years agoCredit: Francis Thackeray/Wits University A team of scientists from South Africa has…

New multidisciplinary study takes the long view of Santa Barbara coastline vulnerability and provides options for adaptation Santa Barbara County residents love their coastline, from the small-town beaches of Carpinteria to Santa Barbara's…