But scientists are taking steps toward making moon agriculture a real possibility. Researchers said on Thursday they have found a way to turn inhospitable lunar soil fertile by introducing ...

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

The half-hour journey takes you through forests full of giant trees rising from the fertile volcanic soil. But then, ... Hot vapours rise from the cracks in the vegetation-free volcanic rock.

A volcanic legacy. After floods deposited all that soil into western Oregon, a new layer of geologic inputs would arrive to alter the region’s soil: tephra — the rocks, ash and clumps of lava ...