Gardeners love loam soil because it's moist, soft and full of nutrients. Here's how to get more of it in your garden beds.

But gardening has grown on me, and now I know not to use the word “dirt.” “We refer to it as soil, because dirt is a four-letter word,” says Tony Provin, Ph.D., a professor and soil chemist at Texas A ...

Coho salmon dying from exposure to a toxic tire chemical just before they return to their spawning ground after their journey ...

Soil testing is an essential tool for measuring soil fertility. Representative soil samples that have been properly collected ...

Soil is a mixture of tiny particles of rock, dead plants and animals, air and water. Different soils have different properties depending on their composition. Sandy soil is pale coloured and has ...

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Soils are composed of a mixture of sand, silt, clay and organic matter. Both the clay and organic matter particles have a net negative charge. Thus, these negatively-charged soil particles will ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a bacteria-based technique to repair bricks that can be ...

Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service ... SOM is a heterogeneous mixture of materials that range in stage of decomposition from fresh plant residues to highly decomposed material ...

demonstrating how to pack a mixture of peat moss, dirt, lime, perlite and other components into galvanized metal boxes equipped with a lever. The tool pushes out the packed soil blocks into neat ...