Researchers are paying close attention to how fertilizers change tiny features within soil where carbon can be stored ...

Soils produce more than 95% of the food we eat. We depend upon them for our food and the clothes on our back but they are so much more than natural factories. For one thing, they act as an important ...

A study on 'canopy soils' on old trees in Costa Rica shows they are important habitats and carbon stores that cannot easily be replaced. In certain trees, soils can form along branches and can support ...

With only 7.5% of Earth's surface covered in fertile, agricultural soil, it's critically important to maintain the soil to ...

Engineers have created strong, low-cost walls from soil, water, and cardboard, cutting carbon emissions and construction ...

In the multicellular soil bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor, some cells start producing lots of antibiotics after mutations delete big chunks of their genomes. Now a computer model has helped to ...

Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil ...

Strange, regularly repeating stone patterns that sometimes form in cold settings are generated by needles of ice that push soil particles and stones slowly around. This is the conclusion of an ...