Soil conditioner increases aeration in soil and helps it retain water better while adding valuable nutrients. It's typically ...

The Eaton and Palisades fires likely made polluted soils worse, but soil experts say bioremediation may be an alternative to ...

Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a proposed method of carbon dioxide sequestration that involves spreading crushed silicate ...

Two of those approaches, organic farming and biodynamic farming, often get lumped together – but they’re far from identical.

The findings of a new study have important implications for native bee conservation, particularly in urban and agricultural ...

Mulch is something that is applied to the soil surface. It can be organic (pine straw, bark, wood chips, leaves) or inorganic ...

The topsoil organic carbon pool is at high risk in 43 to 83 million hectares of EU and UK agricultural land, primarily in ...

k1 = self-packing density of pure organic matter (g cm −3). k2 = self-packing density of pure mineral matter (g cm −3). To account for differences in sample designs across studies, soil data were ...

Several minerals found in soils contain S in some form ... In Minnesota, soil testing for sulfur is correlated and effective only for sandy soils with low soil organic matter concentrations in the ...

Water retention depends on soil’s ability to form “aggregates,” crumbs of organic matter and minerals that act like sponges. In healthy soil, these aggregates are formed by insects ...