For John B. Anderson, the Gulf Coast is personal. The W. Maurice Ewing Professor Emeritus of Oceanography at Rice University ...

Lithium, the lightest metal on the periodic table, plays a pivotal role in modern life. Its low weight and high energy ...

Risk to life’ warning over scenic Isle of Wight road that could fall into sea - The Isle of Wight’s Military Road is an ...

Perseverance cracked open a tricky Mars rock to find water-related minerals, then zoomed across the landscape to make its ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting environments for long stretches in the ancient past, a new study suggests.

"We often say Illinois’ greatest natural asset is its soil. That’s not just rhetoric — it’s reality. Our soil feeds families, ...

Illinois soil and water conservation districts were allocated just $4.5 million for their operations in the budget year that ...

Researchers say holes in the clay that overlays the Memphis aquifer could have let pollutants from as early as the 1940s into the groundwater.

A clay-rich mesa in the Hellas basin of Mars. The blue color near the rim is aluminum bearing clays. The red-orange color below that is iron and magnesium bearing clays. The image captures an area ...

As the last article in these series, I would like to introduce the 12th soil order, the vertisols. Vertisols are known as shrinking and swelling dark clay soils. The most ...

The Erosion Challenge Because of their somewhat sandy content and lesser ability to hold water, Mivida soils, and many soils of Utah, are not ideal for gardening unless modified or added to in some ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza has stood guard over the desert for thousands of years. Carved from limestone and towering beside the pyramids, it remains a powerful symbol of ancient ingenuity.