Beneath every ecosystem lies a structured world of soil types and names. This system reveals the planet’s diversity from the ground up.

Soil Types You May Find on Your Property According to Sargeant, the type of soil that makes up your lawn and gardens might not be ideal, but it certainly is unique. “Each geographical area has ...

The soil horizons in Portage County, Wisconsin, reveal a glacial history. The Laurentide ice sheet advanced and retreated over this region until roughly 11,000 years ago, depositing gravel, sand, and ...

Locating diamond deposits in the earth isn't always an exact science, so the greater the number of methods of doing so, the better. A new study now suggests that soil microbes may point the way to ...

This is a remarkable characteristic of desert soil bacteria, as in other types of soil many groups of bacteria take much longer to reactivate." When reactivated, the bacteria would quickly begin ...