A Chinese-foreign research team has discovered that soil invertebrates — such as termites, ants, and earthworms — play a ...

To fertilize seedlings, it is enough to sprinkle a thin layer of ash on the potted soil several times. If you want to achieve ...

Researchers on coastal ecology have studied for decades the conditions that can lead to plummeting oxygen levels in sensitive ...

Phosphorus is a necessary nutrient required for all life. However, it is only found in limited quantities in nature. In a new ...

The Controlled Environment Agriculture Herb Extension & Research Base (CEA HERB) project team received a grant from the USDA ...

To improve the health of the soil you'll need to take a sample, read its nutrients and pH level, then enhance it with whatever additive (amendment) it needs to bring the soil into a healthy balance.

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) have discovered an innovative method to tackle this problem by turning harmful algae into a powerful tool for cleaning water. Their study, published in ...

The brine can also be distinguished from brine samples on Earth, as it is much richer in phosphorus—an element abundant on asteroids but uncommon on Earth. The team’s findings shake up the ...

Shandong Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Shandong Key Laboratory of Environmental Processes and Health, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong ...

Phosphorus, the vastly underappreciated 15 th element on the periodic table, is essential to all life as we know it. Phosphorus is the structural backbone of the phosphate nucleotides in DNA and ...

With a few major exceptions, that is. One is that the elemental sulfur used as an electrode is a very poor conductor of electricity, so it has to be dispersed within a mesh of conductive material.