The loss of vegetative cover caused by logging — whether clear-cutting, thinning, or even prescribed burns — exposes soil to the drying effects of sunlight and wind, and this contributes to erosion, ...

The record sheds light on the climate early humans experienced when they were spreading out of Africa. A tree-ringed African ...

New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time shown a strong correlation between sediment changes and a marked period of ...

A research team from the School of Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a new computational model to study the movement of granular materials such as soils, ...

How sensitively does organic carbon stored in soils react to changes in temperature and humidity? This question is central to ...

Reding provides technical assistance to the SWCD along with the Pelican River Watershed District and the Cormorant Lakes ...

Working close to the Capitol Lake shoreline in Olympia Wa. On May 8, 2025 a project team from the Department of Enterprise ...

The Department of Enterprise Services and its estuary restoration project team began conducting soil sampling on and around ...

Particles of both minerals and organic matter track the retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which melted about 20,000 years ...

The increasing frequency of once-in-a-decade agricultural and ecological drought has underscored the urgency of studying hydrological changes. A research team has analyzed the estimated changes in ...

The Ogallala Aquifer, a water source under farmland, cities and small towns from South Dakota to Texas, is in crisis.

Columnist Anne Millbrooke writes that troubled waters in Montana are due to pollution, sediment and mismanagement, but that ...