Sandy soils are among the most challenging environments for agriculture because water drains quickly and nutrients are easily lost. A new long-term ...

When Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off in January, it will carry the Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM) experiment, which studies soil behavior under conditions that cannot be duplicated on Earth — ...

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 ...

In this lab, students measure the diversity of soil invertebrates that are collected from areas with different vegetation composition or cover, depending on the questions and hypothesis that the ...

The latest research pushing crop yield frontiers using soil re-engineering will be delivered at Western Australia's leading annual grains research ...

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 ...