New research suggests rainfall and climate variability may play a larger role in soil carbon increases than land management, ...

Soil erosion is widely known for degrading land and reducing agricultural productivity. But new research shows it may also play a far more complex and important role in regulating the global nitrogen ...

Starting in the mid-20th century, humans began to move around more soil than the natural forces of erosion and volcanic activity taken together — we became geological agents, as environmental ...

Drought is projected to affect 75% of the world's population by 2050. Take that in. ‘Drylands’ now make up nearly half of all land on Earth, excluding Antarctica, and droughts "fuelled by human ...

When you buy new cropland, you're not just buying the soil, you're also investing in the years of fertilizer, inputs, and stewardship the previous owner put into it. However, are you paying for those ...

Soil testing and analysis rates are on the decline across all of Ireland’s main agricultural land use sectors.

After stumbling upon thousands of Mason jars filled with soil in a University of Illinois barn, some of them over 100 years old, Andrew Margenot knew he had found something special. As a soil ...