Soil holds the promise of capturing greenhouse-gas emissions to help slow global warming. Companies are now working to measure how soil stores carbon as they encourage farming techniques that ...

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 ...

A retaining wall for a Wastetoenergy plant in Gurgaon is having difficulty due to the lack of a suitable base soil. The wall will be difficult to build due to the presence of a deep pit.