The Hidden Majority: What Are Soil Microbes? Soil microbes are microscopic organisms that live in the soil, including bacteria, fungi, archaea, protozoa, and viruses.

Earth’s soil is drying up. It could be irreversible. The losses in soil moisture already pose issues for farming, irrigation systems and critical water resources for humans. But new research ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Wave-like landforms on Mars provide clues about the planet’s icy history, its potential to support life, and the behavior of ...

Also called biocrust, cryptobiotic soil is a community of tiny, dirt-dwelling organisms that form a distinct crust on the top of soil in arid landscapes.

Paying attention to soundscapes within the landscape design process can create a stronger sense of place and reduce unwanted ...

With all the recent rain, how do I know when garden and landscape plants need water? With the heat, some leaves look wilted.

What the alien soil needs is some Martian fertilizer, maybe made by adding extremophiles to it – hardy microbes imported from Earth that can survive even the harshest conditions. Genetically ...

Built From Dust Earth, Soil and the Modern Afropolis With artworks by Younes Ben Slimane, M‘barek Bouhchichi, Lungiswa Gqunta, David Grandorge, El ...

The dull brown colour of soil in our mind’s eye obscures a rich and broad colour palette: often it burns with deep reds from iron oxides, glows golden with sulphur, is drenched in waterlogged greens, ...