From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

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

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Did you know that you don't have to throw away all the fallen leaves in your yard? Leaves are a valuable source of nutrients ...

Start by putting fall leaves to work in the garden. Use your mower with the bag attached to shred and collect fall leaves.

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

There is a whole world inside soil, shaping our everyday existence.“Soil is fundamental to the functioning of Earth,” ...

Fall is a great time to improve your soil for next year’s garden. Many of the resources needed are readily available and many ...

The table shows the representative samples and their associated read counts. AutoNormalization effectively normalized the ...

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

Between a third and half of all soil carbon on Earth is stored in peatlands, says Tom and Marie Patton Distinguished Professor Joel Kostka. These wetlands—formed from layers and layers of decaying ...