City soil provides food production, temperature control and water filtration that makes urban areas healthier places to live.

This Spring 2025 Pratt Earth Action Week, join Pratt Institute’s MS in Sustainable Environmental Systems, Dr. Perl Egendorf, and Bk Rot for a free public workshop on urban soil science and testing!

In the context of contemporary global ecological and environmental challenges, maintaining ecosystem services and sustainable ...

The hidden crisis from the devastating wildfires in January affected those who did not lose their homes. However, the onslaught of smoke and ash from the wind-whipped urban fires in the Palisades and ...

Plastic pollution is already a major problem worldwide. However, when subjected to weathering and environmental factors plastic waste gets broken down into microplastics (MPs) that pose a bigger ...

The assortment of species of tiny soil animals – small enough to stand on the head of a pin – differ from one urban park to another, unlike plants and larger animals where a few species are often ...

New soil testing by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has found high levels of lead and other toxic metals at homes destroyed by January’s catastrophic wildfires and cleared by ...

The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL), and the ARS’s Partnership for Data Innovations (PDI) have launched a new web-based application to facilitate ...