All keen gardeners know the importance of having good soil structure that supports healthy plant growth. Drainage and aeration are key to aiding moisture management, and it turns out you can ...

“We think of things as a triangle of soil structure, microbiome and plant roots, all interacting with one another,” he says. Another approach being encouraged is to minimize tillage. This ...

These include protecting soil structure, feeding the soil with nutrients from natural and local sources, and increasing the diversity and numbers of the microbes and other organisms that live in ...

A new and quick way to predict the transport of chemicals through the soil has been developed. Where do pesticides and their degradation products go once they enter the soil? And how long does it ...

Dutch designer Thom Bindels has developed Ecosystem Kickstarter, a honeycomb-shaped cardboard frame that can help small-scale farmers grow crops in degraded soil. The simple, modular, cardboard ...

The composition of this matter is determined by plants, microbes, and the soil. However, scientists do not fully understand how variation in plant inputs, the structure of soil microbial ...

The findings, published last week in the scientific journal Nature Communications, reveal the importance of soil pore structure for stimulating soil carbon accumulation and protection.

Soil structure matters and it becomes compacted as roots repeatedly absorb water from the soil. In the wild, worms and insects are constantly shifting and breaking apart soil particles.

Keywords: Site response, Soil-structure interaction, Structure-soil-structure interaction, Centrifuge testing, Performance-based earthquake engineering Abstract: This report presents three studies ...

Farmers call this practice “mudding the crop in.” Unfortunately, working in wet soils can cause damage to soil structure and soil quality that can negatively affect crop yield for years.

improving soil structure, enhancing soil biotic activity and improving soil moisture and temperature regimes. Adding organic matter has also been widely promoted for increasing soil's water ...