A single gram of soil contains between 10 million and 1 billion viruses. Most of those viruses do not infect plants, animals ...

Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), in collaboration with researchers from the University of the Ryukyus and the University of ...

When Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off in January, it will carry the Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM) experiment, which studies soil behavior under conditions that cannot be duplicated on Earth — ...

"Soil Your Undies" sounds like the latest, grossest internet challenge to make the social media rounds. But it's actually a ...

Tropical forests exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other terrestrial biome, meaning that even a relatively small shift in the balance of carbon uptake and release there could have a big ...

An enigmatic feature of frozen soils can be explained in part by non-Newtonian fluid physics. Enter the Oobleck.

Ecologists have measured plant-soil feedbacks for six perennial prairie grass species in a short-term greenhouse study, and say their findings do not match outcomes observed in long-term experiment ...

After stumbling upon thousands of Mason jars filled with soil in a University of Illinois barn, some of them over 100 years old, Andrew Margenot knew he had found something special. As a soil ...

Pushing soil ecosystems to their limits “This is one of the first warming experiments to push an ecosystem into a novel temperature regime outside of its normal range,” notes Caitlin Hicks Pries, a ...