A new study published in the journal Soil Ecology Letters, shows the importance of old termite mounds as habitats for a wide ...

In a remarkable advancement for soil science, researchers from Japan have developed a novel method for estimating microbial ...

Most common cause of camellia bud drop in our climate is a lack of soil moisture during the period of bud formation in the ...

Different publications will tell you different things about how long it takes to make soil, some of them are pretty alarming!

My compost pile is teeming with red, wiggly worms. How did they get there? What are they doing? Are they beneficial in my ...

Researchers at Turkey's Durupinar site have found promising evidence of a man-made structure at a boat-shaped formation, possibly suggesting the location of of Noah's Ark.

Soil microorganisms break down plant residues, active and slow fractions of soil organic matter. Humus is the passive or stable fraction of the soil organic matter that results from decomposed plant ...

Introduction. The first definition of the sombric horizon in Soil Taxonomy (), and in its later version (Soil Survey Staff, 2014), was originally based on the soil survey of the Congo (currently the ...

Countering the forces of soil formation are the forces of erosion - wind, water, gravity and in certain areas of the country, snow and ice. As soon as erosive forces abate, soil formation commences.

SoilPoint Soil Booster is a humic-based product that mirrors natural soil formation processes. Using a proprietary method, SoilPoint extracts and preserves 87 essential minerals, vitamins, ...

Factors affecting soil formation. Soil forms continuously, but slowly, from the gradual breakdown of rocks through ... to eventually become organic matter. This may take the form of peat, humus or ...