Forest soil stores water, carbon and nutrients for trees and also provides a habitat for living organisms. When managing forests, it is particularly important to work in a way that protects the soil ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to measure soil moisture in the shallow subterranean region between the surface and underground aquifers. This region, called the vadose zone, is ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to measure soil moisture in the shallow subterranean region between the surface and underground aquifers. This region, called the vadose zone, is ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Agricultural producers could, in the future, make use of better forecasts to more efficiently irrigate their fields using a Purdue-developed technology that could more ...

SMD is the moisture the soil must make up until it is at capacity, with very dry conditions over most of England and Wales ...

AMES, Iowa – It’s up there right now, orbiting the Earth about 426 miles above the planet’s surface. Its mechanical arm has extended, and it’ll start to spin soon. This summer, NASA’s Soil Moisture ...

Rural Iowa farmers are helping climate scientists get a better understanding of soil moisture levels across the state, data only available at the local level until now. The Iowa Flood Center has ...

Using state of the art techniques, researchers use vibrations from traffic to measure underground soil moisture. Caltech researchers have developed a new method to measure soil moisture in the shallow ...