McFee, a Purdue University agronomist, visited Hungary in May 1996 to study soil formation. Hungarian soil scientist Erika Micheli drove him to the outskirts of the village of Aktar, where a surface ...

Geochemist Isaac Larsen at UMass Amherst has received a five-year, $500,000 early career development grant from NSF to address basic research questions about soil production, soil erosion, ...

A study on 'canopy soils' on old trees in Costa Rica shows they are important habitats and carbon stores that cannot easily be replaced. In certain trees, soils can form along branches and can support ...

Healthy soil is the key to growing a beautiful and thriving garden. Building and nourishing the soil begins with getting to know what type of soil you have. Knowing your soil type will help you in ...

Rapid erosion due to human activity, such as grazing livestock and farming, has stripped the Alps of almost all the soil formed since the retreat of the glaciers. This soil developed over millennia as ...

In 1938 Walter Lowdermilk, a senior official in the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, traveled abroad to look at lands that had been cultivated for thousands of years, ...

In certain trees, soils can form along branches and can support varied plant and animal life. However, what conditions these ‘canopy soils’ form in, and what kind of biodiversity they support, has ...