A new USC study reveals a dramatic surge in building collapses in the ancient Egyptian port city of Alexandria, directly ...

As climate change warms the Arctic, permafrost is thawing, and carbon trapped within the soil is moving into the atmosphere.

Expansive soils cause more property damage per year than earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes combined. Expansive ...

Conservation experts say that’s bad news for soil health, which is directly tied to water quality and our health. They’re ...

An ancient fragment of a Kouros statue was unearthed on the Yılancı Burnu coast in Kuşadası, Turkey. At the western coast of ...

In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano, an ecologically ...

Many California natives require fire to germinate their seeds and so we could see some of them sprouting this winter and ...

A new study in the journal Nature Sustainability estimates that blowing dust and wind erosion cost approximately $154 billion ...

The "dust rig" was designed and developed in 1983 to simulate erosion effects on aircraft surfaces subjected in flight to dust-laden environments. It has been recently upgraded to test the larger mass ...

As Mass Effect 2 celebrates its 15th anniversary, we look into why the new game is taking so long and whether it will ever be out. BioWare’s history is built on a wealth of critically-acclaimed ...

These measures involved treating the Pisha sandstone to mitigate water loss and soil erosion, while also integrating industrial development into the remediation efforts. The Pisha sandstone ...

Soil erosion can be a serious problem, especially in large, sloped yards or areas that get a lot of water runoff. Heavy rains, snowmelt, flooding, winds, and extreme wet/dry cycles can loosen and ...