It is a real problem: Microplastic particles are everywhere. Now a team has developed a method that allows it for the first time to precisely localise microplastic particles in the soil. The 3D ...

The Outside Story shows how needle-thin columns of ice protruding from the ground are formed from the liquid between soil particles.

New research shows how changing rainfall speeds up soil carbon loss and how biochar helps soil cope with stress.

Soil contaminated with harmful perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) is difficult to clean, a complete remediation is often not possible. Perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl ...

University of Cambridge provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The London Underground is key to the functioning of England’s capital city. Roughly 2 million people use it each day. But ...