UCLA researchers offer free soil contamination testing Saturday at MudTown Farms in Watts, with clean soil demonstrations and take-home materials.

Gardeners obsess over seed varieties and planting dates, yet the soil under their boots often gets ignored. Soil testing for ...

The source of the dust is a monument to the past: a 50-foot mountain of towering black rock, called slag, left over from a ...

Underground, intricate networks of soil fungi underpin the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet despite their global importance, only 30% of global ecosystems have been sampled for these fungal ...

The Irish Heritage Trust have unveiled a new permanent exhibition, in the first stage of transforming the visitor experience at the Irish Agricultural Museum, at Johnstown Castle Estate, Museum & ...

The old Bray-1 method required multiple samples to provide a full nutrient picture of the sample, slowing the process and increasing the cost. In contrast, the new method, called Mehlich-3, requires ...

Abstract: Accurate soil sampling is essential for sustainable crop production, and the automation of this process using robotic systems is an important step to make this process faster and more ...

Understanding the dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) in sloping farmlands is critical, as they play a vital role in the global carbon cycle and soil health. Although prior research has focused on ...

A friend of mine once said that there’s more history in a square yard of Kansas soil than in all the history books in all the world’s libraries. That might have been a bit of hyperbole, but he had a ...

Researchers at the Institute of Urban Environment at the Chinese Academy of Sciences looked into the effect of various microplastics on soil. Microplastics are tiny bits of plastic often not visible ...

Soil testing begins with the homeowner, gardener, and farmer. The most critical step in soil testing is soil sample collection. Soil testing can help growers make informed decisions about fertilizer ...