Plowing, or tilling, is an age-old agricultural practice that readies the soil for planting by turning over the top layer to ...

The soil beneath our feet is a huge carbon bank storing up to approximately three times more carbon than the entire ...

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific Reports. Treating simulated lunar soil with both symbiotic fungi and ...

This study introduces a comprehensive analysis of various soil-resistant vegetation indices (VIs) designed to mitigate the ...

A new modelled measurement tool has been put to the test with one of the most successful soil carbon projects to date ...

New research suggests rainfall and climate variability may play a larger role in soil carbon increases than land management, ...

Tropical forests exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other terrestrial biome, meaning that even a relatively small shift in the balance of carbon uptake and release there could have a big ...

If all goes according to plan, soil from Prosser, Washington, could end up in space this week. The soil – and eight types of bacteria in the soil – will hitch a ride to the International Space Station ...

Ecologists have measured plant-soil feedbacks for six perennial prairie grass species in a short-term greenhouse study, and say their findings do not match outcomes observed in long-term experiment ...

Sahasra Swargam’s dad used to tell her the same thing every time she left food uneaten. “A farmer worked really hard to get every single piece of rice on your plate,” Sunil Kumar Swargam would remind ...