Walk into any garden center and you will find shelves packed with products labeled as "organic soil boosters," "natural ...

Soils with a variety of microplastics may allow microbes that perform denitrification processes to thrive; this could cause ...

Most bacteria cannot be cultured in the lab-and that's been bad news for medicine. Many of our frontline antibiotics ...

Researchers from the Sydney Institute of Agriculture at the University of Sydney investigated the vast and largely hidden world beneath our feet. Soil is where 59% of all life on Earth resides. A ...

Biochar, made from plant waste, can restore carbon in fragile pasture soils, boost fertility, and support climate resilience.

Researchers have developed a new way to extract large DNA fragments directly from soil in order to piece together the genomes ...

Locating diamond deposits in the earth isn't always an exact science, so the greater the number of methods of doing so, the better. A new study now suggests that soil microbes may point the way to ...

Prolonged droughts followed by sudden bursts of rainfall – how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive such harsh conditions? This long-debated question has now been answered by an ERC project led ...

After you die, bacteria harvest your body for the nutrients that help push daisies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Each human ...

New research shows that warming alone won’t make soils release extra carbon - microbes need the right nutrients to fuel emissions.

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 ...

Bacterial speck is a common disease that affects tomatoes and can result in lower yields for growers. A new study led by ...