There’s a saying that “healthy soils grow healthy people,” and it’s truer than ever as we uncover new links between the earth beneath us and our own well-being. Soil microbes are silent ...

The team also used prior studies of how long those soils had been weathering; the studies relied on beryllium-10, an isotope generated when minerals are exposed to cosmic rays at the Earth’s ...

Landscape dynamics determine the evolution of biodiversity on Earth. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 11 / 231129112401.htm ...

For the first 4 billion years of Earth’s existence, its continents were dusty, barren and rocky landscapes similar to the surface of Mars. But, around 500 million years ago, this all changed. Land ...

Inside the Effort to Save Earth’s Biocrusts ... cryptobiotic soil is a community of tiny, dirt-dwelling organisms that form a distinct crust on the top of soil in arid landscapes.

For the first 4 billion years of Earth’s existence, its continents were dusty, barren and rocky landscapes similar to the surface of Mars. But, around 500 million years ago, this all changed.

Soil that bears a striking resemblance to dark earth can be found in and around Kuikuro villages (one seen here from above) in southeastern Brazil. Google Earth, Map data: Google, Maxar Technologies ...

Earth's soil moisture dropped by over 2,000 gigatons in roughly the last 20 years, the study says. For context, that's more than twice Greenland 's ice loss from 2002 to 2006, the researchers noted.

Black Earth Rising' illuminates links between the climate crisis, land, colonization, diasporas, and social and environmental ...