A new study published in the journal Soil Ecology Letters, shows the importance of old termite mounds as habitats for a wide ...

Aug. 4, 2023 — Ecologists examined the distribution patterns of canopy soils, and their soil properties, across Costa Rican forests. The researchers suggest canopy soil may store more carbon ...

Logging operations can negatively affect soil density and water infiltration within forests, particularly along makeshift logging roads and landing areas where logs are stored before being trucked ...

Like many other sportsmen’s club properties, Auburn's poor soil conditions cause trees to grow very slowly. But that in itself isn’t necessarily bad. Slow-growing trees tend to produce denser ...

The USDA is rolling back a 2001 rule that protected state land in the Cherokee National Forest in East Tennessee and the Land ...

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in lasting damage to carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stocks, as well as to the ...

American forests are important sources of carbon sequestration, storing millions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. However, a unique experiment led by Peter Reich, University of Michigan professor ...

Tropical forests exchange more CO 2 with the atmosphere than any other terrestrial biome and store nearly one-third of global soil carbon stocks. Tropical terrestrial ecosystems also have the ...

New soil testing has found high levels of lead in the soil at wildfire-destroyed homes that federal cleanup crews had determined to be cleared of such contaminants, according to Los Angeles County.