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April 16, 2019

The dirt on soil loss from the Midwest floods

Jim Ippolito, Colorado State University and Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Iowa State University

Recent extreme rains and weather in the Midwest are causing a multitude of problems in the topsoil that much of the nation’s food supply relies on.

February 7, 2018

Luc Bussiere, University of Stirling

Meet the brawny bug with a concoction so caustic it’ll make a toad vomit.

November 16, 2015

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi, Auburn University

Africa’s soil crisis calls for quick and creative action. This includes deepening farmers’ knowledge about soil microbes.

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi
Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Luc Bussiere
Associate Professor in Animal Ecology, University of Gothenburg
Jim Ippolito
Associate Professor of Environmental Soil Quality/Health, Colorado State University
Mahdi Al-Kaisi
Professor of Soil Management and Environment, Iowa State University