EnvironmentRanching and farming have eroded almost all the soil in the Alps Grazing livestock and farming over the past 4000 years have rapidly accelerated the rate of soil loss in the Alps, jeopardising the ecosystem and putting the mountains at risk of further erosion News
SpacePlants thrive in lunar soil with help from phosphorus-making bacteria The moon lacks the nutrients that plants need to grow, but adding three types of bacteria to a simulation of lunar soil enabled tobacco plants to flourish in lab experiments News