What happens when an engineer builds a smart garden? This Arduino-powered system automates watering while collecting ...

Forest soil stores water, carbon and nutrients for trees and also provides a habitat for living organisms. When managing ...

Healthy soil is the foundation of our food, clean water, and a stable climate, and cutting-edge science helps us to protect ...

New research shows that the presence of solar panels in Colorado's grasslands may reduce water stress, improve soil moisture levels and -- particularly during dry years -- increase plant growth by ...

DUAL SCREEN DESIGN & BATTERY-FREE: Our 2-in-1 soil tester has ahead designed with a bigger dual-screen. Just plug-&-read, no battery, it shows the soil moisture level and soil pH simultaneously.

Cheryl Sawyer has been teaching agriculture classes in Avondale for eight years and is always seeking new hands-on learning opportunities.

Nanotechnology is being explored to improve crop tolerance to drought and heat. By enhancing water use, nutrient delivery, ...

The approach was found to be robust by validation using simulations from a radiative transfer model, and valuable in improving soil moisture estimates from SMOS. In addition, refined brightness ...

NiMetAs climate change impacts intensify around the country with erratic rainfall, stakeholders are developing new approaches to mitigation and adaptation to help farmers build resilience.The African ...

A method based on reflective terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) was proposed to detect metal impurities in insulation materials and cable interlayer moisture ... used as characteristic ...

A scalable, open-source environmental control system using Arduino and Python for precision automated indoor farming.