A new dinosaur species unearthed from the famed Morrison Formation in Colorado has been identified, according to a journal article published last week in Royal Society Open Science.

The rocks and soil samples from asteroid Ryugu have provided new insights into the nature of primitive asteroids and the formation of the Solar Syste ...

From sugar plantations in Brazil to tea estates in India, crushed rock is being sprinkled across large stretches of farmland ...

Researchers at the universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht have observed the formation of nanocavities in montmorillonite clay ...

It is no secret that the presence of humans has left visible scars on this planet. Be it edging out endangered species with ...

This image shows the Earth’s Critical Zone, which extends from the tops of trees down through the soil to depths up to 700 feet and depicts the microbes which live throughout this zone. This zone ...

Earth’s critical zone, extending from trees on the surface down to soil 700 feet underground, is home to several chemical and biological processes that uphold ecosystems. Microbes are among the most ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth’s Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through ...

SoilPoint ’s Soil Booster is a humic-based product developed to improve overall soil health by mirroring natural soil formation processes. Using a proprietary method, SoilPoint extracts and preserves ...

From rocks come soils. All soils were once part of rock, but with time and various physical and chemical processes of weathering, rock becomes unconsolidated into loose rock particles. It is from ...

Soil formation processes begin with parent material, which eventually transforms into what we recognize as soil. With just a couple of exceptions, parent material consists of some form of rocks, ...

Once parent material is in place, the lengthy process of soil formation begins. Rock needs to be broken down to soil particles known as sand (largest size), silt and clay (smallest size).