The plants clean the air through photosynthesis, while their leaves and soil help to trap particulate matter. According to planning documents, the living wall will have the capacity to absorb ...

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. froze the soil to create an underground ice wall to divert the groundwater toward the ocean and away from the damaged reactor buildings where the liquid can ...

A grey or light-coloured 'E' horizon is the result of severe leaching, or eluviation, which washes out everything but quartz grains. Eluviation is the removal of soil, clay, silt or fine organic ...