Too much fertilizer disrupts the hidden world of soil-dwelling microbes that were sustaining healthy crops long before ...

Mathematicians have solved a physics puzzle using backyard sprinklers. Experiments with silly sprinklers clarified how ...

The world's longest-running soil warming experiment has revealed an unexpected climate concern. After nearly four decades, ...

Forest soils are releasing more carbon than previously believed. Warming temperatures cause stable soil organic matter to ...

The soil beneath our feet is a huge carbon bank storing up to approximately three times more carbon than the entire atmosphere. That makes it a significant player in the future of our climate. If even ...

Forest decline often starts above ground with crown thinning, injured bark, reduced foliage, and sick trees, but a new study ...

Multiomics approaches for understanding of the dynamic mechanisms of soil holobiont in mitigating salinity stress in plant hosts. PGPR = plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria; AMF = arbuscular ...

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.

A new study reveals that soil acidity plays a critical role in determining how wheat competes with soil microorganisms for nitrogen, a nutrient essential for plant growth and global food production.

Every grower wants bigger buds. Healthy plants. The kind of trichomes that glisten, with terpene and cannabinoid content that deliver the perfect full-spectrum high. That’s the goal, whether your ...

The natural world teems with microorganisms. Billions of species of bacteria, archaea, viruses and fungi make up complex ecosystems in the soil, water and air. The activity of these microbes sustains ...

One simple gardening tool can improve compacted soil without relying on heavy equipment that may do more harm than good beneath the surface.