The world's longest-running soil warming experiment has revealed an unexpected climate concern. After nearly four decades, ...

The cause-effect sequence or "feedback" between plants and their soil microbial communities plays an important role in structuring plant communities. To predict this synergistic coexistence, ...

Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil ...

When extreme drought strikes, drier grasslands receive the greatest productivity benefit from biodiversity. By contrast, ...

When farmland is returned to the wild, it shows a striking ability to hold onto the carbon that built up in farm soils over time, retaining this stock for 30 years or more, a unique, long-term study ...

Tropical forests exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other terrestrial biome, meaning that even a relatively small shift in the balance of carbon uptake and release there could have a big ...

By Evanildo da Silveira Soil created centuries ago by Indigenous peoples in the Amazon could help speed up recovery of ...

When Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off in January, it will carry the Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM) experiment, which studies soil behavior under conditions that cannot be duplicated on Earth — ...

On a remote Kenyan island where the ground is sandy and freshwater is scarce, an innovative experiment is reshaping how food can be grown. Soil microbiologist Su Kahumbu works to transform barren ...

A Brazilian researcher is working with Mexican farmers to test soils using biochar: a carbon-rich material showing promise in increasing water retention and fertility. Biochar is a porous, solid ...