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A soccer goalie dives for the ball
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Turf’s Dirty Little Secret

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 14 April 20212 March 2023

Greenhouse gas emissions from sports fields may be scoring points for climate change.

Soil chips help researchers understand how fungi species behave at the microscopic level in soil.
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Soil Chips Help Scientists Spy on Fungal Navigation

Bas den Hond, Science Writer by Bas den Hond 13 April 202119 July 2022

Soil chips provide a micrometer-resolution window into life underfoot, shedding light on how fungi behave when navigating soil’s mazes.

Two plots showing measurements of soil and ecosystem metabolism
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Dueling Eyes on Ecosystem Metabolism Tell Diverging Stories

by Ankur R. Desai 2 April 202122 December 2021

Multiple state-of-the-art independent observing systems consistently disagree on magnitudes and patterns of ecosystem metabolism of carbon dioxide, but together can shed new insight.

Artist’s view of the SMOS satellite in orbit
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Observing the Sun via Soil Moisture Measurements

by Michael A. Hapgood 31 March 202113 October 2021

Solar radio bursts are background noise for satellite-based radio observations that monitor soil moisture, so, with appropriate processing, those observations can provide data on radio bursts.

A soil profile from the Wind River Range
Posted inEditors' Vox

Exploring the Engine and Drivers of Soil Formation

by A. G. Hunt, M. Egli and B. A. Faybishenko 26 February 20211 October 2021

A new book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on soil, exploring it as a nexus for water flow, near surface (bio)geochemistry, erosion and deposition, and biologically coupled nutrient cycling.

On-the-ground view of a tractor tread mark going through soil in a farm field
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Global Look at Surface Soil Organic Carbon

by David Shultz 1 February 20215 October 2021

Soil organic carbon is an important element of ecosystem and climate health. Remote sensing can now give scientists a global look at this important piece of the carbon puzzle.

Herd of wildebeests descends from a low cliff into a river.
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La Geología y la Química Impulsan la Migración Animal en el Serengueti

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 11 December 20206 September 2022

Trabajo de campo en Tanzania sugiere que la química del suelo—influenciada por el vulcanismo local y la actividad tectónica—podría ayudar a determinar la migración sin precedentes de más de un millón de ñus.

The Sun sets over a rice field in Cambodia.
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Will Rising Temperatures Make Rice Too Toxic?

by N. Ogasa 9 December 202028 February 2023

Greenhouse experiments reveal how higher temperatures act to elevate arsenic levels in rice and may help focus efforts to solve a crisis threatening food systems around the world.

Six plots showing spatial distribution of steady-state groundwater aquifer salinity (colors) and flow streamlines (white) for the two-dimensional simulations of the floodplain
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Evaporation Reverses Groundwater Flow and Forms Hyper-Salinity

by D. Scott Mackay 4 December 20201 December 2022

A numerical model of groundwater-surface water systems shows how floodplain evaporation can reverse stream-groundwater flow and produce strong buoyancy changes associated with salinity.

Neat rows of crops grow between rows of trees
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Using Nuclear Fallout to Measure Soil Erosion in Tunisia

by Issa Sikiti da Silva 5 November 202028 January 2022

Cesium-137 acts as a tracer to evaluate the efficiency of conservation methods.

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