The 2024 World Soil Day (celebrated December 5) theme, "Soil Care: Measure, Monitor, and Manage" reminds us that healthy ...

One example of a bacterium that poses a serious threat is ‘Listeria monocytogenes’. This bacterium lives in soil but can ...

Soil, often perceived as lifeless dirt, is a dynamic ecosystem teeming with bacteria, many of which naturally carry ...

Drought, land degradation, industrial farming and pollution are severely damaging soil health, with profound consequences for ...

Researchers have found that the soil we walk on is far more than just dirt; it may be harboring tiny genetic codes that ...

There was a time when farmers and others in the agriculture industry didn’t give soil much thought.
 It was often taken for ...

But the really good dirt in Alberta isn’t to be found at city hall or the Alberta legislature. It’s in the rich topsoil which ...

Billions of tonnes of topsoil are lost annually due to overgrazing, pollution, and deforestation, threatening global food ...

Soil plays a much bigger role in the spread of antibiotic resistance than one might imagine. Surprisingly, the ground beneath ...

By looking at how it is represented in works of fiction, we can try to understand how we relate to soil. And through soil, ...