It feeds us, captures carbon and provides a home for billions of living creatures ... a magnifying glass. Soil is a mixture of tiny particles of rock, dead plants and animals, air and water.

Humongous Fungus, the largest living organism in America, spanning 2240 acres and weighing 35,000 tons. Explore its ...

Soil organic matter is composed of soil microbes including bacteria and fungi, decaying material from once-living organisms such as plant and animal tissues, fecal material, and products formed ...

There are five core ingredients to soil: minerals, water, air, organic materials, and living organisms. It takes thousands of years for all of these components to come together and form the ...

We analyzed 394 studies encompassing 275 unique species or types of soil organisms and 284 different pesticides or pesticide mixtures. While previous studies have looked at particular pesticide ...

There are, of course, many biochemical and respirometric studies of the activity of micro-organisms in soil which treat it as though it is a homogeneous tissue. In fact, however, the system lacks ...

Both fungi and roundworms are outdone dramatically in turn by still smaller organisms. In a pinch of garden soil, about a gram in weight, live millions of bacteria, representing several thousand ...

Brown earth soils are widespread in Britain, except in highland areas. Soil organisms, like earthworms, mix the materials together, merging the boundaries between the horizons. These soils are ...