16-05-27 Establishing a human colony on the Moon and travelling to Mars has been the stuff of dreams since the dawn of the space age. 在月球上建个人类的殖民地，去火星旅行是人类自太空时代开启之初一直以来的梦想。 But these visions face many hurdles. How can hu...

14-04-16 The ability of forests to sequester（使隔绝） carbon from the atmosphere depends on nutrients available in the forest soils, shows new research from an international team of researchers, including IIASA. The study, published in the journal Nature Cl...

12-12-18 Just 20 years ago, the soils of the Amazon basin were thought unsuitable for large-scale agriculture, but then industrial agriculture -- and the ability to fertilize on a massive scale -- came to the Amazon. What were once the poorest soils in the w...

12-10-15 The most likely source of the water locked inside soils on the moon's surface is the constant stream of charged particles from the sun known as the solar wind, a University of Michigan researcher and his colleagues have concluded. Over the last five...

12-09-20 A Washington State University researcher and colleagues make a case in the journal Nature for a new type of agriculture that could restore the beleaguere（包围的） soils of Africa and help the continent feed itself in the coming decades. Their syste...

12-02-28 The frigid McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica are a cold, polar desert, yet the sandy soils there are frequently dotted with moist patches in the spring despite a lack of snowmelt and no possibility of rain. A new study, led by an Oregon State Univer...

11-10-19 Microscopic animals that live in soils are as diverse in the tropical forests of Costa Rica as they are in the arid（干旱的） grasslands of Kenya, or the tundra（苔原） and boreal forests（北方森林） of Alaska and Sweden. That conclusion is found in...

11-08-24 In the Mid-South, twin-row soybean production is becoming a popular growing technique for soybean producers. An estimated 80% of the total hectares（公顷） grown in the Mississippi Delta are planted in this configuration. While growers report this m...

11-06-16 Assessing the environmental risk of pesticide use is an important, complex task that requires knowledge of the equilibrium（均衡，平静） sorption（吸附作用） parameter. This helps researchers assess the risk of pesticides leaching into groundwater....

10-06-11 The ongoing search for evidence of past or present life on Mars includes efforts to identify organic compounds such as proteins in Martian soil, but their absence to date（至今） remains a mystery. A new theory to explain what happens to these carbo...