Megan Sever

What makes a soybean system more resilient in the face of drought, floods, and other weather extremes? Decades of research in Tennessee suggest that diversified management practices, including crop rotations and poultry litter applications, can strengthen both yields and soil health for the long haul.

As wildfires increasingly engulf the built environment, scientists are uncovering how heat, ash, and debris transform soils.

What happens just underneath the Earth’s surface is responsible for our agricultural systems, regulates our climate, and supports our infrastructure. What do we know and not know about this unsaturated zone?

Since the Green Revolution, yields of wheat have increased, but concentrations of micronutrients like zinc, iron, copper, and manganese in the grain have decreased, impacting global nutrition. A new study in Crop Science found that despite variety and location differences, modern soft white and hard red wheat grown in the Pacific Northwest have comparable mineral concentrations—generally aligned with wheat from other global regions. Improving grain nutrition will not be easy as there are numerou

Catastrophe risk company celebrates a decade of helping the world understand earthquake risk.

ACE protein offers a breakthrough method for measuring organic nitrogen in soil, providing key insights into soil health, nitrogen availability, and sustainable farming.

ACE Protein Provides First Solid Measurement of Organic Nitrogen in Soils Read the full text PDF Tools Share Abstract Organic nitrogen constitutes the vast majority of the total nitrogen in arable soils, but since there hasn’t been a reliable method…

In July 1923, 100 years ago this month, scientists and explorers made an extraordinary discovery that forever changed our view of dinosaurs. An expedition to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia unearthed fossilized dinosaur eggs, in a nest, confirming that…

A Mediterranean vacation — surfing, kitesurfing, windsurfing, stand-up paddleboarding, snorkeling, scuba diving, sailing, kayaking and even swimming — is living the dream. But these activities depend on good weather and water conditions

La Niña, the cold phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation climate pattern, often brings flooding to Australia, extreme drought to the southwestern U.S., and cold wet winters to the Pacific Northwest. This pattern more or less recurred the past ...

This is another in our series of stories identifying new technologies and actions that can slow climate change, reduce its impacts or help communities cope with a rapidly changing world. Twelve-year-old Theo was excited when his soccer team made it…

Former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who was just confirmed as the next ambassador to India, talks with Temblor about resilience, the importance of neighborhoods and his love of earthquakes. By Megan Sever, TEN Editor in Chief and News Director…