Soil stores more carbon than Earth's atmosphere and plants combined, which makes the speed of soil carbon's decomposition an important variable in models used to predict changes to our climate. A new ...

A study of eroding black soil croplands in northeastern China found that microbial communities adapted to erosion stress ...

Globally, soils contain three times as much carbon as exists in the atmosphere and all plants, combined. Which means that understanding how soil microbes recycle organic materials—sometimes sending CO ...

A controlled incubation study reports that persistent free radicals on biochar surfaces redirect straw-derived carbon toward ...

The rhizosphere is the narrow region where plant roots and the soil interact vigorously and intensive microbial metabolism occurs. The properties of rhizosphere soil are usually different from that of ...

A new study found the base rate of organic carbon decomposition in soil across the US can vary by as much as tenfold. Soil stores more carbon than Earth’s atmosphere and plants combined, which makes ...

Researchers led by Yue Pan at Shenyang Agricultural University tested how swings between wet and dry conditions affect soil organic carbon breakdown in a clay loam Alfisol from Northeast China, and ...

Ontario farmer Blake Vince popularized burying cotton underwear to gauge soil activity. More decay may signal active microbes ...

It has become standard practice to add organic matter such as compost when preparing soil. At least as far as information on ...

After you've been home gardening for a while, there comes a moment when you suddenly wonder, 'Do these nets and stakes really ...