Testing the soils in an allotment on the outskirts of Glasgow. Image by Sam Thomas We found a vast range of life living in our urban sites. Across the soil samples from six urban nature reserves we ...

Researchers call for greater consideration of soil biodiversity and functions in international conservation strategies A quarter of all known species live in the soil. Life above ground depends on the ...

Healthy soil is the foundation of life, but industrial agriculture is depleting it faster than it can recover. Find out how ...

NASA's Perseverance rover collects Martian soil samples from Jezero Crater, revealing potential signs of past life on Mars.

Soils that are rich in life are vital for our survival but a third of the planet’s soils have been degraded. The University of Manchester is tackling this global emergency by establishing novel ...

Passionate and knowledgeable, a soil expert and "terroir-ist", Isabelle Legeron brings the earth to life. Leaving stones unturned, she revels in the thrilling complexity of this seemingly static ...

Microbial soil life, from aerobic bacteria to symbiotic mycorrhizae, has also been destroyed. Thus, soil fertility has been lost. In order to correct the deficiencies wrought by fire, copious ...

More information: Gabin Piton et al, Life history strategies of soil bacterial communities across global terrestrial biomes, Nature Microbiology (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41564-023-01465-0 Provided by ...

Researchers have found more than 20 different amino acids, the building blocks of life, in soil samples Japan’s Hayabusa 2 space probe brought back from the asteroid Ryugu, according to sources.