Local ranchers are hoping a soil health experiment will reveal clues about how they can better manage their land under dry conditions as the Colorado River basin continues to struggle under the ...

The Arizona Department of Agriculture will give $1.8 million to landowners working on soil health innovation and sustainable desert farming.

After stumbling upon thousands of Mason jars filled with soil in a University of Illinois barn, some of them over 100 years old, Andrew Margenot knew he had found something special. As a soil ...

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Coastal forests are increasingly exposed to the effects of climate change and sea level rise. New experimental research examined how soils change when transplanted between parts of a tidal creek that ...

If all goes according to plan, soil from Prosser, Washington, could end up in space this week. The soil – and eight types of bacteria in the soil – will hitch a ride to the International Space Station ...

Tropical forests exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other terrestrial biome, meaning that even a relatively small shift in the balance of carbon uptake and release there could have a big ...