The rapid expansion of utility-scale solar farms across the U.S. has brought much-needed renewable energy to the grid.

Compared to intensive land use, sustainable land use allows better control of underground herbivores and soil microbes. As a ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is giving residents in the Fifth Ward more time to test their soil for cancer-causing ...

A standoff between officials has stalled progress, eroded community patience and escalated the price tag for taxpayers.

Phosphorus, a nutrient in soil essential for sustaining most forms of life, is increasingly disappearing from land as it is washed into waterways throughout the United States, according to a new study ...

While the Sahara Desert is an important ecosystem in its own right, its human neighbors in the Sahel would like it to stop encroaching on their environment. [Andrew Millison] took a look at how ...

Peatlands, formed by ancient wetlands, store more carbon than the world's forests. But when they're drained for farming, they ...

A project to bring a Wawa to the city waits on environmental cleanup of contaminated soil at the site in South Side. The soil ...

Over the course of 13 months of bombing, the Israeli army dropped more than 85,000 tons of bombs on the Gaza Strip.

Compared to intensive land use, sustainable land use allows better control of underground herbivores and soil microbes. As a result, the soil ecosystem is more resilient and better protected from ...