Plants appear simple on the surface. They sit quietly in soil, growing slowly while responding to light and water. Yet, there ...

Containers half-filled with old potting soil await after a long winter. The soil they contain is dry, dusty, and full of hairy roots—nothing like the dark, fluffy, moist potting mix you started with ...

Leveraging tools from seismology — the study of earthquakes and the inside of our planet — the Earth Rover Program aims to provide critical data on the health of soil. Humans, and terrestrial life in ...

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.

This video is all about how to grow Desert Rose Adenium throughout the year for growers in locations with winter or cold seasons. That means keeping your plants in containers and bringing them indoors ...

COP30 was expected to be a nature and implementation summit, but the negotiations in Belém have revealed a deeper structural tension. Implementation and finance may headline the agenda, but a deeper ...

A collaboration between scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Greifswald in Germany has uncovered a powerful new way volcanoes give life to the Earth: ...

Smallholder farmers have been taught to restore soil health by learning sustainable farming practices like vermicomposting and integrated pest management. The adoption of these techniques has led to ...

“Earthworms make me happy,” Ryan Britt says as he turns over a handful of dark soil. “You see that?” He points to an earthworm before returning it safely to a field of cover crops. “It didn’t look ...

A new IAEA coordinated research project (CRP D12015) will apply gamma-ray spectrometry and digital technologies such as drones, satellite imagery and advanced analytics for precise soil assessment to ...

On an early spring morning in central Wisconsin, the hills were still and serene under a frosty grey sky. Then the fight songs began. More than 200 students from 27 colleges and universities across ...

Contour planting involves tilling, discing, and otherwise preparing the land in line with its natural slope, then planting crops on this same line. When you look at a topographic map, the rows and/or ...