Wildfires may disappear from the landscape within weeks, but their hidden effects on the soil can persist for decades. An international research team led by the University of Göttingen, together with ...

Washington, D.C. - Soils influence water quality, and they are critical to plant growth. However, it has been difficult to predict how plant growth and water quality would change in the wake of ...

When plant and soil organic matter are partially burned during wildfires, pyrogenic organic matter—a stable form of carbon, sometimes known as black carbon or charcoal—is left behind. This marks the ...

Leaves often droop even when the soil feels damp, and that confusion sends many gardeners into a watering spiral. Plants rely ...

In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano, an ecologically significant area in the Peruvian Andes. Unlike Mediterranean ecosystems, ...

A team of investigators devised a new methodology to enable predictions of how plant growth and water quality would change in the wake of wildfires. Soils influence water quality, and they are ...