Canopy soils that form on tree branches contain three times more carbon than soils on the ground in Costa Rica, potentially serving as an important carbon sink around the world. New research reveals a ...

The University of Delaware’s Rodrigo Vargas is a co-principal investigator on a new $18.9 million National Science Foundation grant to study soil at depths greater than anywhere else in the world. The ...

Brian Domonkos straps on a pair of cross-country skis and glides through the trees along Mosquito Creek west of Fairplay. It’s May, but there’s still snow in Colorado’s mountains near the headwaters ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 7, 2021) Soil health is one of the linchpins on which the food production that sustains human life — as well as biodiversity, pollinator health, and carbon sequestration — ...

Rodale Institute, Kutztown, was the site for the 2021 Northeast Regional Soil Judging Contest on Oct. 15, hosted by the Delaware Valley University Soil Judging Team. Competing in this year’s contest ...

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Soil judging is a hands-on experience for students to visualize and apply classroom knowledge in a field environment. Students describe soil morphology, classify soils and make land use ...

Every gardener knows how important healthy soil is to growing healthy and productive plants and successful gardening, but have you ever stopped to think about what comprises healthy soil or how you as ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – It’s a simple equation: If you want to grow better plants, you first need to understand the soil. “The texture of a soil is its proportion of sand, silt and clay,” said James Cassidy ...

The Soil Lab team, winner of the DAF Open Call for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Pictured left to right: Anne Dorthe Vester, Maria Bruun, James Albert Marin, and Eibhlín Ní Chathasaigh.