If you’re planning a new garden, you should start with good soil. After all, soil is the medium of life for plants, providing a place for roots to spread out and take up water and nutrients.

These soils are leached, but not heavily, so the aluminium and iron oxides are dispersed through the soil to give the overall brown colour. The original vegetation was deciduous forest ...

Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of ecological processes. Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage. Aa Aa ...

A worm burrows its way through the dark earth, ingesting particles of soil and expelling nutrient-rich casts in a constant forage for food. Charles Darwin described earthworms as one of the most ...

Soil is also a huge source of raw materials, from iron ore and bauxite (the rock used to make aluminium) to natural gas which is used to power our society. A new report from Save Soil – a ...

We have excellent teaching, research, and outreach programs in the areas of plant biology (cellular, genetics, genomics, microbial, molecular and physiology), agronomy (including pathology, soil ...

Growing research points to soil health as a fundamental building block of our well-being. When it comes to taking care of our health, we often focus on diet, exercise, sleep, among other lifestyle ...

Degraded soils, nutritional deficiencies Many nutritional deficiencies in our foods result from growing crops on degraded soils.Even the nutrients in the most everyday ingredients are at risk. One ...

United States. It thrives on dead or decaying trees and plays a vital role in forest ecosystems by aiding decomposition and ...

It turns out there is a simple way to give roses a natural "boost" to help prepare them for the colder weather and all you ...

The mechanics of this are simple: Direct skin contact with the incredibly diverse range of microbes in the soil directly impacts our microbiome, which itself is inextricably linked with our mental ...