Soil is important to each of us in our everyday lives, but too often we think about it as just dirt! Soil is the special link between plants and humans. It feeds us, captures carbon and provides a ...

Besides being a key source of water and nutrients for plants, soil is also an important reservoir of bacteria, fungi, and nematodes that can severely impact plant growth and yield. Soil-borne ...

Soils that are rich in life are vital for our survival. Our research at Manchester has shown that ecological interactions between plants and soil life are of crucial importance for sustaining plant ...

Show kids the importance of what’s inside the soil—everything from nutrients that feed plants, homes for healthy bacteria, and carbon to fight climate change. Help them make a super scooper to ...

We can find soil in lots of different places because it's really important for almost all plants. Soil helps plants stay upright and it contains important substances to help them grow. In this ...

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...