For the past 10 years, Wayne Honeycutt has led the organization he founded, The Soil Health Institute, to elevate the concept ...

To improve understanding of the relationship between the diversity and function of the soil ecosystem, we investigated the effect of two different disturbances on soil bacterial communities-long-term ...

Soil hydraulic properties are important for irrigation scheduling and proper land-use planning. Field capacity, permanent wilting point and infiltration rate are the three vital hydraulic properties ...

As we enter the holiday season, there is one holiday that simply cannot be missed—World Soils Day. On Dec. 5, of every year, we set a day to appreciate soil and focus on the importance of healthy soil ...

Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, together with its Australian National Soil Information System (ANSIS) partners, ...

URBANA, Ill. – For the past several decades, farmers have been abandoning their plows in favor of a practice known as no-till agriculture. Today, about one-third of U.S. farmers are no longer tilling ...

New soil science at COP30 reveals huge climate and economic risks. Why soil carbon, degradation and land policy are becoming major factors for investors.

Not to be underestimated, soils are fundamental to all life on Earth. (Gregory Urquiaga, UC Davis) Soils are fundamental to all life on Earth and are the foundation of nearly every ecosystem on the ...

We know that soil feeds plants, but do we know how it got there in the first place? Soil forms via the interaction of five factors: parent material, climate, living beings, a land’s topography, and a ...