A new smart platform invented by Purdue University researchers to wirelessly monitor subsoil health could change the landscape of agricultural sensing systems. The invention addresses a critical need ...

Biocrusts, known as the "desert skin," includes communities of cyanobacteria, algae, fungi, bacteria, lichen, and mosses. They can mediate both the physical and biological environments of dryland ...

Conservation agriculture sounds like a great way to protect our environment. It promises to help keep the soil healthy, with more carbon locked in the ground, and less fertilizer runoff. But the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Despite drier than typical conditions last week in Iowa, the abundant rainfall of ...

Sand capping golf course fairways is a trend driven by the need for improved turfgrass growing and playing conditions, especially on areas where low-quality irrigation water and fine-textured soils ...

Madeleine Stone receives funding from The National Science Foundation. It’s no exaggeration to say the tropics drive our planet’s carbon cycle – the constant transfer of carbon back and forth, on a ...

The agreement between Ukraine and the United States does not provide for the transfer of rights to use mineral resources or any property rights. Therefore, it does not require ratification or approval ...

The agreement between Ukraine and the United States does not provide for the transfer of subsoil use rights or any property rights. Source: Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for ...

In a fillip to private ownership of mineral-rich land in Malabar, the Supreme Court has declared that a jenmi or the hereditary owner has exclusive right not only of the soil under his possession but ...