“Soil is an important reservoir of resistant ... to human medical well-being—and that the ground beneath our feet holds secrets that could determine our survival. The study examined 594 ...

Soils around the world are polluted, worn out, over-fertilised and exhausted. How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom ...

Dark, dramatic and dead set on decomposition, soil is alive. Heaving with microbes, worms, fungi and insects, it’s a hive of activity right beneath our feet. Find out the dirt on soil’s drama. In just ...

Oribatids are among the most abundant creatures of their size in the soil. A cubic foot might contain thousands of individuals. Yet I found that their diversity and habits remain largely unknown ...

In this lab, students measure the diversity of soil invertebrates that are collected from areas with different vegetation composition or cover, depending on the questions and hypothesis that the ...

But beneath the feet of Iowa’s farmers ... Without altering agricultural practices and urgently finding ways to preserve soil, the global food supply starts to look precarious.