Soils around the world are polluted, worn out, over-fertilised and exhausted. How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom ...

It’s this array of soil-living organisms that enables energy to flow between rocks, animals and plants, and they play a vital role in the carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, which underpin life on ...

The lack of sufficient organic material is no laughing matter when it comes to your soil’s tilth and fertility. The organic faction in your soil is the next all-important issue after soil texture and ...

Soils are our most important resource, a reality that is rising in prominence as the world seeks to feed its fast-growing ...

Soils that are rich in life are vital for our survival but a third of the planet’s soils have been degraded. The University of Manchester is tackling this global emergency by establishing novel ...

Will Brownback of Spiral Path Farm in Perry County, Pennsylvania has been using biochar for more than a decade to help foster ...

More information: Gabin Piton et al, Life history strategies of soil bacterial communities across global terrestrial biomes, Nature Microbiology (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41564-023-01465-0 Provided by ...

WE CAN ALL see that the daylight length is getting longer at each end of the day. In less than two weeks, spring officially begins.

For not only is soil the stuff of life, upon which we all depend for our nourishment and our very survival, but it is also teeming with mysterious marvels and restorative powers. Far from being ...