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 ...

Impacts of biological amendments, including waste-derived amendments that underpin soil health and agricultural ...

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 ...

Soil and water conservationists work to discover, develop, implement, and constantly improve ways to use land that sustains its productive capacity, and enhances the environment at the same time.

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 ...

In a surprising twist amid rising climate concerns, new research shows that scorching soil temperatures during extreme ...

A five year field study in southern China shows that a single application of biochar combined with reduced nitrogen ...

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 ...

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 ...