What’s in a word? Well, if it’s the word dirt or soil, it turns out, it’s a lot. While most people, myself included, often ...

Before you dig a garden, it's important to figure out what type of soil you have and then select plants (and amend your soil) ...

Rebuilding in Altadena and Pacific Palisades has begun, despite the lack of official requirements to test soil for heavy ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth's Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where these ...

How can technology help map the soil (better), and what role can soil scans and scanners play in this? What is possible?

In a few weeks, gardeners across Nebraska will start planting. Make sure your soil is ready, so those new arrivals will ...

The new study has shown that a large contrast in soil moisture levels over a range of hundreds of kilometers results in atmospheric changes that increase rainfall area and amount in several ...

However, in the 1990s, a growing number of farmers, including those in Lishu county, Jilin province, a major maize-producing county, found that the black soil was revealing yellow layers ...

To test this idea, the researchers conducted experiments using an artificial heat source placed in surface soil layers. They measured how heat spreads, how fast it moves, and how long it persists ...