After nearly four decades, the world's longest-running soil warming experiment is revealing a surprising result: even "stable ...

Throughout human history, our relationship with the soil has affected our ability to cultivate crops and influenced the success of civilizations. This relationship between humans, the earth, and food ...

Take a look out at this landscape. What do you notice? Credit: Shutterstock Take a walk outside. Get some fresh air. What do you notice around you? Buildings, trees, and the sky may be on your list, ...

Topsoil must be amended with plenty of organic matter before being placed into a raised garden bed. Use compost, peat moss or ...

Organic carbon decomposition in soil varies significantly and in regional patterns, driven in part by factors such as soil minerals and microbial properties that have been underrepresented in carbon ...

When it comes to gardening, the term 'soil' gets tossed around liberally, but there's actually a big difference between ...

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 ...

While traditional soil testing has focused on chemistry, a growing range of tools are now available to help farmers assess ...