A nine-year study comparing a typical two-year corn and soybean rotation with a more intensive three-year rotation involving corn, cereal rye, soybean and winter wheat, found that the three-year ...

Protecting coastal groundwater systems and microbial communities requires monitoring, technological innovation, policies ...

Researchers from Stanford University believe their new theory debunks the idea that a massive lightning strike in our ...

It's almost inevitable that New England communities will be facing dirtier air and dirtier water,” said Brad Campbell, ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

Reasons to be Cheerful reports on river Seine, the storied French waterway that was once nearly biologically dead but is not ...

Forget the dramatic lightning strike – life may have started with countless tiny sparks from crashing water droplets! Scientists found that when mist and sprays collide, they generate microlightning ...

One famous experiment conducted in 1952 by American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey provided a possible explanation: ...

Trump's EPA is reviewing scores of “environmental justice” grants, calling into question the future of projects meant to ...

PFAS and nitrates were among the concerns as the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board got an update on challenges for drinking ...

A single straw harvest removes between five and 60 pounds of nitrogen per acre and between 0.5 and five pounds of phosphorus ...