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Researchers found that rhizosphere microbes have special genes that help local plants get nutrients from polluted soils.

Researchers found that pine seedlings in a symbiotic partnership with soil fungi grew 80% larger and survived extreme heat better than those…

University of Minnesota scientists identified a specific DNA region in the bacterium Shewanella oneidensis that helps it tolerate heavy…

Researchers used seismic data to test whether atmospheric rivers in 2023 replenished groundwater in the Greater Los Angeles area after two…

Researchers calculated that nuclear waste could be safely sealed away for more than 350 million years in geological repositories deep…

Scientists tested four methods to reduce earthquakes caused by drilling for geothermal energy, and proposed a safer approach to replace the…

Scientists studied sediments from the Mississippi River catchment to determine whether modern agriculture caused more landscape erosion than…

Researchers showed that thawing permafrost reduces the quantity and quality of fish species in Arctic streams by raising water temperatures…

Scientists found that forest harvesting and wildfires in British Columbia are causing severe weather events to create more geohazards, like…

Scientists modeled how Earth’s temperature and atmosphere will change over billions of years and predicted that plants and the life they…