The capacity of soil to regulate the terrestrial freshwater supply is a fundamental ecosystem service. Water percolating through soil is filtered, stored for plant utilization, and redistributed ...

The study of frozen soil hydrology is fundamental to understanding how water behaves in subzero environments—a critical facet in both natural ecosystems and engineered systems in cold regions. Central ...

Most of us think nothing of rainfall or where it goes, unless it leads to flooding or landslides. But soil scientists have been studying how water moves across or through soil for decades. Daniel ...

Plants are some of the most resilient life forms on Earth, and a team of researchers led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick professor Ying Fan Reinfelder reinforce this idea through a new study that ...

Searching for water, some tree roots probe hundreds of feet deep and many trees send roots through cracks in rocks, according to a new study led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick professor.

In the basic water cycle, water falls on the land in some type of precipitation (rain or snow). It either is soaked into the ground or runs off into a body of water – storm water or natural.

A team of researchers from Northwestern (from the research groups of Profs. Aaron Packman and George Wells), The Nature Conservancy, and Loyola University demonstrated how precipitation and water ...

Dr Fabrizio Albanito and Dr Sabine Reinsch, soil health and carbon scientists at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, discuss the findings of recent research into the impacts of droughts on soils’ ...

In ETH Zurich’s “Waldlabor”, environmental engineers led by Marius Floriancic are using custom-built equipment to study water fluxes in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum – a globally unique ...

After a wildfire, soils in burned areas often become water repellent, leading to increased erosion and flooding after rainfall events—a phenomenon that many scientists have attributed to smoke and ...

“Water is essential to all development goals and ecosystem services,” says Dr. Chansheng He, professor of geography and a watershed hydrology specialist. “Every person must have access to enough water ...

Technical manuals that provide agency wide guidance on wetland delineation are a relatively recent arrival in federal wetlands programs. Before 1986, none of the federal agencies with regulatory ...