Decades after federal bans ended widespread use of lead paint and gasoline, some urban soils still contain levels that exceed safety guidelines for kids.

Planting trees can sometimes be a carbon-offset box-ticking exercise, but reforestation is a long-term commitment that supports communities, promotes biodiversity and tackles the climate emergency.

Invisible to the eye, the microbial life in the air around us can vary depending on our environment.

Experiments with asbestos fibers in soil indicate that efforts to prevent human exposure to the cancer-causing mineral may threaten water supplies.

Farmers can help slow climate change by mixing native grasses into croplands, restoring wetlands and raising perennial crops. These strategies also conserve soil and water and build new markets.

Drilling instead of tilling the soil to plant seeds could help the ground store more carbon.

Scientists need to know how much we can rely on the land to offset our emissions.

We may think of plants as passive life forms, but they can cooperate, share resources, send one another warnings, and distance themselves from their communities when survival depends on it.

Using tiny 'soil chips', researchers have observed the forgaging strategies of fungi for the first time.

A new discovery about how rocks on Earth rusted and turned red could help predict what will happen with future climate change, researchers report.