The oil company is removing damaged pipeline from the Yellowstone River to try to determine the cause of the rupture, which spilled 42,000 gallons of crude.

Fertilizer trees—which fix nitrogen in the soil—have improved crops yields in five African countries, according to a new study in the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. In some cases yields have doubled with the simple ad…

Population pressure will be as significant a factor as climate change in reducing crop yields — and thus increasing food insecurity — in West Africa, according to a modelling study. They found that, as the population increases, farmers frequently c…

Farmer Brian Schaumburg has planted corn for five straight years in some of the thousands of acres he tends in central Illinois.

Farmers who eschew crop rotations that help to replenish the soil with nutrients take a risk that …

Sixth story in an occasional series about EPA’s fugitives list. Of all the alleged crimes committed by members of U.S. EPA’s …

Microbes live in all parts of the biosphere where there is liquid water, including soil, hot springs, on the ocean floor, high in the atmosphere and deep inside rocks within the Earth’s crust. Some recent studies indicate that airborne microbes may pl…

Soil is replaced by thin films of nutrient-rich water sluicing down hundreds of plastic channels cradling the roots of salad greens, lettuces and culinary herbs.

Warming in the Arctic is causing the release of toxic chemicals long trapped in the region’s snow, ice, ocean and soil, accor…

Fishbone meal is being added in the soil to neutralize contamination in an Oakland neighborhood.

Community leaders in Oakland, Calif., have started to reduce lead contamination in backyards by roto-tilling the soil with a paste of fishbone meal.