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 ...

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 ...

When farmland is returned to the wild, it shows a striking ability to hold onto the carbon that built up in farm soils over time, retaining this stock for 30 years or more, a unique, long-term study ...

Conservationists in England are collecting cores of soil from an ancient woodland… so they can transplant them into a newly established site. The goal is to reintroduce missing fungi species in the ...

American forests are important sources of carbon sequestration, storing millions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. However, a unique experiment led by Peter Reich, University of Michigan professor ...

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 ...

Sahasra Swargam’s dad used to tell her the same thing every time she left food uneaten. “A farmer worked really hard to get every single piece of rice on your plate,” Sunil Kumar Swargam would remind ...

Bacteria and other microorganisms are abundant throughout soils and deep into the ground and serve an essential role in the global ecosystem through various biochemical processes, particularly ...

My granddaughters came to the Arboretum in late summer to plant the underwear. Six brand new pairs of men’s tighty-whity all cotton briefs placed in six nursery buckets of various soils, and the ...