Degradation of soils over the past 40 years has been due to the depletion of organic matter content, resulting in decreased crop yields. To produce two tonnes of maize per acre, an uptake of nitrogen ...

In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed ...

Ozone pollution is a global environmental concern that not only threatens human health and crop production, but also worsens global warming. While the formation of ozone is often attributed to ...

For many people, "plastic pollution" calls to mind pictures of turtles and other marine life drowning in single-use plastic bottles and discarded fishing nets. My own research looks at how the same ...

Regulatory frameworks are another major force accelerating change in the herbicides sector. Policies like the European Green ...

Stevenson’s work focuses on mycoremediation, a technique that uses fungi to rehabilitate polluted land. Mycoremediation ...

et al., 2024). As a result, it has emerged as another viable method to enhance the soil carbon sequestration function. However, urban pollution has become a significant factor affecting the carbon ...

Rainfall seasonality led to variations in soil water content, but it did not affect sapling growth or leaf gas exchange ... applied nitrogen can also be immobilized by soil micro-organisms (Moreira et ...

Such analyses provide insights into how land use and topographic factors affect soil health, helping to inform sustainable land management strategies that can mitigate degradation, restore soil ...