Rotating corn and soybeans offers environmental and management benefits to farmers, but could pose long-term tradeoffs for the health of the soil.

Climate change may make it harder for the soil to absorb water. That could have serious implications for food production and security, researchers warn.

Scientists may have overestimated the amount of carbon that US land can suck out of the atmosphere.

Lake Tahoe, one of the clearest, cleanest lakes in the US, shows how that the issue of microplastics goes way beyond the oceans.

"...we really need new structural classes of antibiotics that have never been contaminated by clinical resistance from established antibiotic classes."

There's a new way to clean up the heavy metals in contaminated soil.

Genetic engineering can make crops that literally grow their own defense, but scientists still need to understand how they degrade in the soil.

Data about soil temperature and moisture can improve predictions about how much rain will fall during monsoons.

"We saw an opportunity to convert a liability, contaminated soil, into a commodity, fertile soil."