In a race against time, scientists are exploring new ways to restore natural systems. Alongside traditional methods such as ...

Adding biochar to farmland soils is widely promoted as a climate-friendly practice, but its impact on greenhouse gas ...

The cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum is a soil microbe that produces diverse natural products with potential ...

Learn how to make lactic acid bacteria to add beneficial microbial life to your garden Marco Thomas from Marco’s Microbes demonstrates how to make lactic acid bacteria from simple kitchen ingredients.

This illustration shows how elevation and nutrient variations along Shergyla Mountain influence soil microbial communities. While habitat generalists exhibit broad niche adaptation and are shaped by ...

Agricultural plastics, such as this mulch film covering strawberry plants, are a major source of microplastics in soil. Credit: Shutterstock Soils with a variety of microplastics may allow microbes ...

Prolonged droughts followed by sudden bursts of rainfall – how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive such harsh conditions? This long-debated question has now been answered by an ERC project led ...

BOISE, Idaho — For more than 80 years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service has supported America's farmers, ranchers and forest landowners. The USDA does this ...

Researchers have unveiled a surprising new way that soil microbes can use sunlight energy—even after the lights go out. A ...

Lynette Abbott from The University of Western Australia, focuses again on soil health, this time by assessing and monitoring ...

Researchers tracked how plant matter moves through bacteria's metabolism. Microbes respire three times as much carbon dioxide (CO2) from non-sugar carbons from lignin compared to sugar from cellulose.

Jake M Robinson is affiliated with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change think tank Resilience Frontiers. He receives funding from the National Environmental Science Program for ...