There are also some soil bacteria that eat actual rock. It’s this array of soil-living organisms that enables energy to flow between rocks, animals and plants, and they play a vital role in the carbon ...

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 ...

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 ...

MORE than 40 percent of East Africa’s soils are degraded, with climate change and soil erosion posing a major threat to ...

The lack of sufficient organic material is no laughing matter when it comes to your soil’s tilth and fertility. The organic faction in your soil is the next all-important issue after soil texture and ...

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.