At the new Soil Health Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, scientists are developing a probiotic that could give ...

Join Mark from Self Sufficient Me as he demonstrates how to transform recycled plastic milk containers into productive ...

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 ...

Using soil samples from your own area, your class will get up close and see what they can find inside different soils. A practical observation activity looking at soil in detail, with discussion ...

Scientists have, for the first time, grown plants in soil from the Moon. They used soil collected during the Apollo 11, 12 and 17 missions. In their experiment, the researchers wanted to know if ...

Clay soil rarely wins popularity contests. It clumps like wet cement during rainy stretches and then bakes into brick when the sun turns fierce. Plants struggle to push roots through it, water lingers ...