Any home gardener knows they have to tailor their watering regime for different plants. Forgetting to water their flowerbed over the weekend could spell disaster, but the trees will likely be fine.

University of Chicago researchers have developed a mathematical model that predicts how soil microbiomes respond to environmental changes, focusing on pH shifts. Using just two variables, the model ...

The new microbe-explicit soil model (left) versus DayCent’s previous soil model that did not explicitly model microbe activity (right). Of all the carbon stored in ecosystems around the world, about ...

From predicting soil microbiome shifts to simulating slope stability, AI and machine learning are revolutionizing geotechnical engineering. By processing complex environmental and geotechnical data, ...

What is needed for plants to grow? How might you select which plants would be best to reforest a desert? How long do you think it might take to go from a desert to a forest? What positive and negative ...

In recent decades, climate change has modified the growth of forests, mainly due to increasing temperature and altered ...