Early on a cold spring morning, Diana Wall is trying out a tool normally used to make holes on golf courses—and she can't contain her excitement. Her team has always used more laborious methods to ...

Bacteria and other microorganisms are abundant throughout soils and deep into the ground and serve an essential role in the global ecosystem through various biochemical processes, particularly ...

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 ...

In this practical activity, your class will examine the importance of earthworms in breaking down organic matter to produce soil which helps plants to grow. You'll go looking for earthworms by using ...

There’s a buzz at the New York Hall of Science in Corona, Queens, and it’s not just the bees pollinating the thriving plants of Carbon Sponge Garden. They are testing which plant varieties and soil ...

“Irreplaceable” experiments that contributed to the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 would be lost with the construction of The Ottawa Hospital’s new Civic Campus on part of the Central Experimental Farm, ...