A two-year open-air experiment shows that elevated ozone and combined organic-inorganic fertilization both accelerate ...

Pesticides, heavy metals, micro- and nanoplastics in the soil and environmentally harmful chemicals can have a detrimental effect on the cardiovascular system, according to a review paper published ...

A field experiment shows that nitrogen enrichment, particularly nitrate, widens the growth gap between the invasive Solanum rostratum and a co-occurring native species by amplifying the invader's ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 15. Soil ecosystem, fundamental to global food security and environmental health, is increasingly threatened by anthropogenic pollution.

Earthworms, insects and mites are all at risk from soil pollution, and scientists are worried that we know very little about the damage it's causing. Dr. Victoria Burton, a co-author of the new ...

A recent study published in the journal Atherosclerosis reviewed the links between water and soil pollution and human health. Clean water and healthy soil are essential to human health, well-being, ...

The system has already been tested both in potting soil in the lab and in the field in Germany, where it measured oxygen dynamics in soil layers over several months without malfunctioning, even in ...