The first ever global erosivity map gives new insights into the geography of the rain's impact on soil erosion. The underlying research highlights differences between climatic regions and calls ...

A map of Earth reveals hotspots of soil biodiversity and regions to target for conservation. Many of these areas are currently unprotected, ... Global maps of soil-dwelling nematode worms.

The global map of soil pH shows acidic areas in red and alkaline regions in blue. Photo by University of California, Santa Barbara. SANTA BARBARA, ...

Their goal: to produce a digital soil map of the entire world. It is a daunting task. In many parts of the world, ... a region covering 18.1 million square kilometers.

Particularly wet regions include the Amazon, the Caribbean Sea and the monsoon zones in Central Africa and Asia, with intense rainfall during a two-month period. Here the erosivity is high, with ...

SMAP launched Jan. 31 on a minimum three-year mission to map global soil moisture and detect whether soils are frozen or ... (the efficiency of these polar regions at emitting thermal energy).

Now a global map of soil carbon in mangrove forests at 30 m spatial resolution could support new ecosystem services policy tools for rewarding the preservation of major environmental assets. “We felt ...

A new study maps the trace concentrations of water implanted in the lunar soil by the solar wind, a water source that could be used as resource in future lunar exploration.

Now, NASA is incorporating direct SMAP data on soil moisture into Crop Explorer, the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service website that reports on regional droughts, floods, and crop forecasts.