where soil loses the physical, chemical, or biological qualities that support life, is a natural process but it is being accelerated by human activity. Pollution kills microbial life in the soil ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth's Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where ...

The diversity of soil microbial communities exceeds that of ... strategies for metagenomic soil libraries are based either on activities of the library clones or on sequence similarities with ...

“When we conducted global data analyses, we found how biochar as a stable carbon influences soil features, particularly microbial activities leading to changes in microbial carbon,” Ren says. “That in ...

Researchers found that NT farming increases soil carbon storage, enhances microbial activity, and prevents degradation, making it a promising tool for sustainable agriculture. With the changing ...

Nearly 80 farmers, community members and agricultural industry professionals gathered this year on Feb. 3 for the Peninsula ...

Rock outcrops, long regarded as passive geological features, may play an active and crucial role in shaping soil function in ...

carbon levels in the soil are also rapidly depleted from the decomposition of SOM. The decomposition of SOM is due to the activity of the microbial decomposer community in the absence of continual ...

Soil extracellular enzyme activities in the surface (0-5 cm) and subsurface (5-20 cm) layers of alpine meadow (A-F) and swamp meadow (G-L) under different warming treatments.CK: control treatment ...

Adding more organic matter to soil isn’t a straightforward solution for increasing its carbon stock, in part because increased carbon inputs can stimulate microbial activity that generates more carbon ...

"When we conducted global data analyses, we found how biochar as a stable carbon influences soil features, particularly microbial activities leading to changes in microbial carbon," Ren says.