A study led by researchers from the Department of Microbiology at the University of Malaga has revealed how organic ...
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 microbiologists.
Healthy soil acts like a power source for every thriving garden, and small changes can trigger surprisingly fast improvements. Gardeners often focus on plants while the real transformation starts ...
The successive heat waves that sweep across southern Spain in summer have harmful effects on the entire community that lives ...
As the planet has warmed, scientists have long been concerned about the potential for harmful greenhouse gasses to seep out of thawing Arctic permafrost. Recent estimates suggest that by 2100 the ...
The team collected soil from Svalbard, an archipelago between Norway and the North Pole.
Researchers discovered that microbes respire three times as much CO2 from lignin carbons compared to cellulose carbons. When soil microbes eat plant matter, the digested food follows one of two ...
The garden is a structure, and like any structure, it requires a good foundation. That's where soil health comes in.