With 60 harvests left to save the Earth's soils, an environmental advocate and a farmer share their thoughts on what must ...

Soil testing tells a story. It reveals a lot about the health of your soil and what's in it. Or, more importantly, what's NOT ...

Biologically, microbes require water in soil pores to metabolically function (Maier et al. 2008). Additionally, the availability of water is considered to be one of the most important factors for ...

The worms create channels in the soil, which can aid water and air flow as well as root development. The shallow-dwelling worms create numerous small channels throughout the topsoil, which increases ...

There’s a quiet revolution happening in gardens around the world, and it’s all about putting down the tiller. More and more ...

Did drainage worsen the drought stress? Looking back at the 2024 growing season, I think drainage still helped more than ...

The capacity of soil to regulate the terrestrial freshwater supply is a fundamental ecosystem service. Water percolating through soil is filtered, stored for plant utilization, and redistributed ...

Dirt is what’s tracked onto your kitchen floor. Soil is what plants grow in. Having gardened on both Sutherland clay and ...

A novel method for estimating the rate of photosynthesis from land plants reveals that satellite observations—the current ...

Likewise, without sudden density changes, water will move downward and be stored in pore spaces. It will wick back up as water evaporates from the surface of the soil or through plant leaves.” ...

Researchers from the University of Twente (Netherlands) and Bayreuth (Germany) have developed microplastic-free encapsulation ...

After a few years, sediment and hydrocarbons from the drainage area build up in the pores between sand particles ... allowed to exfiltrate out of the sand filter into the surrounding soil instead of ...