Cornell University soil lab confirms LiveSoil reduces water use by 60%, strengthens root systems, enhances soil biology ...

Despite the use of chemical treatment for strnegthening sandy soils, an understanding of how it gains strength is lacking. Now, scientists have studied how sandy soil is made stronger through the ...

JT Cornelis works for the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia, as an Associate Professor in soil science. He receives funding from NSERC Discovery Grant, NSERC ...

Ecologists examined the distribution patterns of canopy soils, and their soil properties, across Costa Rican forests. The researchers suggest canopy soil may store more carbon than previously thought.

Agricultural production is largely dependent on continuously changing environmental and climatic conditions, such as salinity, drought, and extreme ...

Soil vapor contaminants found at the Quito Village Shopping Center in Saratoga have delayed the site’s mixed use development project by more than a year, and cost the property owner about $5 million.

Soils come in many different colors, described by hue, value, and chroma (Munsell color system). Using the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) online Web Soil Survey (WSS) to discover the ...

We know that soil feeds plants, but do we know how it got there in the first place? Soil forms via the interaction of five factors: parent material, climate, living beings, a land’s topography, and a ...

What is needed for plants to grow? How might you select which plants would be best to reforest a desert? How long do you think it might take to go from a desert to a forest? What positive and negative ...