Really, how productive is the average home vegetable garden – and will it leave you hungry? It largely depends on space, soil and gardening skills.
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There is a growing interest in planting small trees in urban areas. However, large trees have significant advantages.
Up to 42,000 tonnes a year of microplastics are removed from sewage, spread on fields as fertiliser and eventually wash back into watercourses.
Potting soils are helping plant seeds travel. Is it benign or harmful?
Whether a combine harvester or a Diplodocus is the cause, compacted soils are a big problem.
Ground is collapsing and massive lakes are draining in a matter of days. Thawing permafrost is having profound effects on the region and its infrastructure.
Plants communicate with the fungi on their roots, but the effects on the ecosystem of deliberately adding fungi as a fertilizer are unknown — and might be harmful.
Soil health is at the heart of new government plans for farm payments with policies to increase soil organic matter and promote winter cover.
As governments and corporations pledge to help the planet by planting trillions of trees, a new study spotlights an effective, low-cost alternative: letting tropical forests regrow naturally.
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The global community must understand the importance of soil in order to protect it.
Nature-based solutions can help us sustainably tackle climate disasters - but to do that, they urgently need policy support.
The Centers for Disease Control has announced a new, stricter standard for lead poisoning in children, which will more than double the number of kids considered to have high blood lead levels.
Yes, trees and soils can absorb and store carbon, but the carbon doesn’t stay stored forever. That’s one of the problems with how net-zero plans for the climate are being designed.
If we want to reduce carbon emissions and preserve planetary ecosystems, we need to protect our soils.
An atmospheric scientist and sailplane pilot describes why large areas of burned land can produce clouds and rainstorms.
Beetles exposed to elevated carbon dioxide emerged later and smaller and had a reduced chance of making it to adulthood.
Soil degradation is a huge challenge for farmers around the world. But new research is showing how farmers can balance crop yields with protecting the environment.
There are more microorganisms in a teaspoon of soil than there are humans on Earth – but what are they all up to?
Policymakers want to pay farmers for storing carbon in soil, but there are no uniform rules yet for measuring, reporting or verifying the results. Four scholars offer some ground rules.
Carrion beetles help stabilise the biology of the soil they live in.
Top contributors
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Soil Scientist, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
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Professor of Digital Agriculture & Soil Science; Director, Sydney Institute of Agriculture, University of Sydney
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Professor of Soil Science, Lancaster University
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Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
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Reader in Ecology, University of Central Lancashire
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Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Soil Systems Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Chair Professor in Sustainability, Lancaster University
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CGIAR System Organization
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Associate Professor in Biology, Flinders University
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Professor in Soil-Landscape Modelling, University of Sydney
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Mycology and Plant Pathology, West Virginia University
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Technical University of Munich
