Rain pounds down, boots squelch, and your once-proud raised beds now resemble a vegetable-flavored swamp. Seeds vanish, roots ...

The world’s most popular drink offers more than just a caffeine kick. Spent coffee grounds can enrich soil and compost, while brewed coffee itself can help manage slugs.

In central Nebraska, we can all vividly remember the flash flood of 2019 brought on by extreme rainfall. That was followed by several drought years. While 2025 has provided an unusually rainy growing ...

ABSTRACT: The Sahel is confronting hydrological modifications resulting from changes in surface features and soil degradation. Efficient soil management requires characterization of the hydrodynamics ...

What makes good soil and what does “good” mean? Most of us would likely answer that good soil is full of readily available nutrients for our vegetables and flowers to uptake and robustly grow. There ...

Soil is a dynamic, three-dimensional living system that serves as both a habitat for soil microorganisms, flora and fauna and a medium for recycling nutrients and water. It is the foundation of global ...

ABSTRACT: As an important component of the global carbon cycle, forest soil organic carbon has a crucial impact on the stability of ecosystems and climate change. As one of the largest carbon pools in ...

Overgrazing leads to steppe degradation and soil structure deterioration, which is common in desert steppes. Restricted grazing is a sustainable practice, but the mechanisms by which soil structure ...