By Devin Kelly, For The Mountain Times Nestled within the heart of Sandy is a quiet garden space blooming with fresh energy ...

Microbes—from deep in the ocean to the slime inside your AC—might play a key role in our fight against climate change.

With more than half the world now living in cities and urban land cover expected to increase by about 1.2 million square ...

Determine the ideal sample depth and density: The density of agricultural soil sampling depends on the level of detail you’re seeking and variability within the field. In areas with high ...

Phylogenetic surveys of soil ecosystems have shown that the number of prokaryotic species found in a single sample exceeds that of known cultured prokaryotes. Soil metagenomics, which comprises ...

Few organisms create chitin, a polysaccharide. And those that do don’t form these kinds of filaments, Bonneville says. One detection technique employs a fluorescent dye to bind to chitin.

Researchers led by Dr. Xu Mingkai from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have identified a highly effective microbial consortium capable of fully degrading acetochlor ...

The risk posed by soil contaminants strongly depends on their bioavailability. In this study, a partition-based sampling method was applied as a tool to estimate bioavailability in soil. The ...

Farmers, researchers, and conservationists will gather in Seneca Falls next month for a full-day event focused on improving soil health and climate resiliency in New York’s agricultural systems. The ...

(PGPR) are important soil organism that promotes plant growth and yield root colonization is an example of a direct and indirect mechanism. The treatments included control, (inorganic fertilizer and ...

1H NMR-based metabolomics was used to examine the response of Eisenia fetida earthworms raised from juveniles for 20–23 weeks in soil spiked with either 20 or 200 mg/kg of a commercially available ...

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.