Wildfires may disappear from the landscape within weeks, but their hidden effects on the soil can persist for decades. An ...

Wildfires fade fast, but soil damage stays for years. This study explains why some forests recover faster than others.

Washington, D.C. - Soils influence water quality, and they are critical to plant growth. However, it has been difficult to predict how plant growth and water quality would change in the wake of ...

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Exploring the adaptive strategies and plant interactions of pyrophilous microbes—those selectively enriched after wildfires due to their metabolic ingenuity—can reveal how these organisms drive ...

After an oil spill or leak, it's important to act fast. If the oil has gotten into soil, scientists need to rapidly assess how much oil there is and how far it spread. It's a process that has always ...

Winter can strike with sudden fury, leaving your garden looking more like a frozen wasteland than a blooming paradise.

In big sagebrush country, re-establishing the ecosystem’s namesake shrub may jump-start the recovery process more successfully after oil and gas development than sowing grass-dominated reclamation ...

Across the semi-arid, windswept areas of the American West, as well as in dry places around the world, biological soil crust clings to the soil in places where vascular plants, like trees and grasses ...

A team of investigators devised a new methodology to enable predictions of how plant growth and water quality would change in the wake of wildfires. Soils influence water quality, and they are ...

In big sagebrush country, re-establishing the ecosystem’s namesake shrub may jump-start the recovery process more successfully after oil and gas development than sowing grass-dominated reclamation ...