For generations, deciding when to water a field came down to habit. Farmers followed the calendar, watched the crop, squeezed ...

What this system can do and who it is forI started building this system after consulting with AI about whether I could see ...

For decades, knowing what lies beneath a farmer’s feet has meant one thing: bagging up soil, sending it to a laboratory, and ...

Water may be far harder to control on the Moon than future settlers can afford to ignore. Based on an experiment involving ...

Agriculture drinks roughly seventy percent of the world’s freshwater, and every drop counts. As water scarcity tightens its ...

Soil moisture monitoring is an important part of many plant-monitoring and automatic irrigation systems. A soil moisture sensor allows a controller such as Arduino to determine how much moisture is ...

A team of researchers at the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder has developed a low-cost electronic sensor that continuously monitors soil pH, offering new insight into ...

To grow good plants, you need good soil. The only way to tell what your soil really needs is to take a soil test. Applying too much fertilizer could be detrimental to your plants. You could waste ...

Researchers are using soil moisture levels to better predict the location and severity of wildfires. In Arizona, soil moisture sensors are being installed to provide real-time data for land managers ...

New moisture-monitoring technology is being deployed in Arizona to help predict flooding and prevent destructive wildfires. Salt River Project crews are burying soil sensors in the Tonto National ...

New degradable sensors could reveal insights into the secret—yet essential—microscopic life in soil. The sensors, which are being developed by soil scientists at Lancaster University and researchers ...