Prairie farmers have made extraordinary strides in improving soil quality. Two major reasons were the shift from using ...

One teaspoon of bare or tilled soil contains more microorganisms than there are people on Earth, however, the rhizosphere can have 1000-2000 times that number (10 10-10 12 cells per gram ...

Each year, over 368 million metric tons of plastics are produced with over 13 million metric tons of it ending up in the soil ...

WASHINGTON— A new study published today by the academic journal Frontiers in Environmental Science finds that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms that are ...

DDT soil pollution is still a major problem in many parts of the world. Researchers have developed a new method to manage ecological risks from the toxin by binding it with biochar. When they mixed ...

Healthy soil plays an important role in cattle health and production. Dr Jan Myburgh from the Department of Paraclinical ...