Details of Earth's shallow subsurface—a key component of the critical zone (CZ)—are
largely obscured because making direct observations with sufficient density to capture …

Earth's climate may be stabilized over millennia by solubilization of atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2) as minerals weather, but the temperature sensitivity of this thermostat is …

The conversion of bedrock to regolith marks the inception of critical zone processes, but the
factors that regulate it remain poorly understood. Although the thickness and degree of …

Groundwater in shallow weathered and fractured crystalline rock aquifers is often the only
perennial water resource, especially in semi-arid region such as Southern India …

Major and trace elements of sediments from a~ 13-m long piston core (SK187/PC33) from
the western Bay of Bengal have been investigated in this study to infer about the changes in …

The development of irrigation is generally considered an efficient way to reduce poverty in
rural areas, although its impact on the inequality between farmers is more debated. In fact …

Abstract The Chilean Coastal Cordillera features a spectacular climate and vegetation
gradient, ranging from arid and unvegetated areas in the north to humid and forested areas …

Weathering disaggregates rock into regolith–the fractured or granular earth material that
sustains life on the continental land surface. Here, we investigate what controls the depth of …

Incipient groundwater salinization has been identified in many arid and semi-arid regions
where groundwater is increasingly used for irrigation, but the dominant processes at stake in …

Agriculture has been increasingly relying on groundwater irrigation for the last decades,
leading to severe groundwater depletion and/or nitrate contamination. Understanding the …