The FDA has announced a Class II recall for hummus sold in East Coast specialty stores, indicating the products could cause ...

My recent soil analyses came back with an expected recommendation: Lime. I am not a geologist nor a chemist, but when I took ...

Healthy soil is not just dirt under our feet. It is a living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals and humans. Healthy soil has four components. About 25 percent is air, allowing soil organisms to ...

Every year on December 5, the world pauses to acknowledge one of the most overlooked foundations of human civilisation: soil. World Soil Day, established by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ...

Earth’s top 2 meters (6 feet) of soil hold 2.5 trillion metric tons of carbon — more than is held in living vegetation and the atmosphere combined. But soil carbon sinks are under threat — global ...

Researchers have repurposed a 100-year-old process for making synthetic oil for a better cause, according to Interesting Engineering. The Bergius process applies water, heat, and pressure to biomass ...

A solar-powered device could produce water, oxygen and fuel from lunar soil for future colonies of astronauts on the moon. It has long been known that a large amount of water is locked up in minerals ...

This week marked the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, highlighting the importance of accelerating progress to restore 1.5 billion hectares of degraded land around the world. The IAEA ...

Can we all agree that summer has officially arrived in Southeast Texas? Early morning temperatures are already above 70 degrees—moist and muggy—and lead into daytime highs of 90 degrees or more.

Studying soil carbon dynamics in a semidesert agroecosystem like the Texas High Plains might seem an unexpected place for a scientist who grew up in a city in tropical Brazil. Carolina Brandani, Ph.D.

The sombric horizon is a diagnostic subsurface horizon defined in the soil classification system of the United States (Soil Taxonomy) and FAO (WRB), used to classify the soil at different categorical ...