Healthy soils depend on a healthy soil microbiome, with beneficial organisms like bacteria providing key ecosystem services.

Conservationists in England are collecting cores of soil from an ancient woodland… so they can transplant them into a newly established site. The goal is to reintroduce missing fungi species in the ...

Soil microbes remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it underground, revealing an overlooked pathway for storage in ...

Globally, soils contain three times as much carbon as exists in the atmosphere and all plants, combined. Which means that understanding how soil microbes recycle organic materials—sometimes sending ...

Experts across the University of California San Diego have come together to launch a new center for soil health research, ...

Microbial necromass plays a crucial role in soil organic carbon (SOC) formation, yet the underlying abiotic and biotic ...

Local ranchers are hoping a soil health experiment will reveal clues about how they can better manage their land under dry conditions as the Colorado River basin continues to struggle under the ...

https://www.kopflab.org/this Fall for a hands-on, discovery-based research course where YOU conduct original experiments on soil-dwelling microbes—no prior lab ...

German-American research team traces the origin. Plants absorb not only nutrients but also toxic metals such as cadmium ...