Now some students are not just learning about insects and spiders at school — they are putting them on the map and even discovering and naming new species. This means around 150,000 of our ...

Microplastics have long been understood to be a global contaminant, but their impact on black soil has remained largely under-researched and unclear. For this reason, researchers publishing in the ...

Veterinary epidemiologist Stephanie Venn-Watson found her porpoise two decades ago while studying the well-being of bottlenose dolphins the US Navy trains to protect ships and harbors. She noticed ...

Concerns over corrosion disrupted Amtrak routes between Milwaukee and Chicago. Amtrak said it has removed several Horizon railcars after an inspection uncovered corrosion in some of the equipment ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — Wildflowers growing on land previously used for buildings and factories can accumulate lead, arsenic and other metal contaminants from the soil, which are consumed by pollinators ...

Last summer, mining startup KoBold made a splash when it said it had discovered in Zambia one of the world’s largest copper deposits in more than a decade. Now, another startup, Earth AI ...

Soil microbiology is the scientific discipline that is concerned with the study of all biological aspects of the microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, parasites and protozoa) that ...