Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

Researchers at Michigan State University have made a groundbreaking discovery in Earth's deep soil layers, uncovering a new group of active microbes known as CSP1-3. These microbes were found in soil ...

Rock outcrops, long regarded as passive geological features, may play an active and crucial role in shaping soil function in ...

How can technology help map the soil (better), and what role can soil scans and scanners play in this? What is possible?

Nanoplastics are an increasing threat to the ecosystem; however, their mobility in the soil is still underexplored. Against this backdrop, researchers investigated the adsorption and aggregation ...

What’s in a word? Well, if it’s the word dirt or soil, it turns out, it’s a lot. While most people, myself included, often ...

Before you dig a garden, it's important to figure out what type of soil you have and then select plants (and amend your soil) ...

Soil is probably the most complex and heterogeneous microbial habitat on earth. The diversity of soil microbial communities exceeds that of other environments. Soil metagenomics is a cultivation ...

Samples were collected on March 15–16, 2012. The localities of the sample sites are shown in Figure 1. Four soil samples were collected in the highly contaminated area in Ohkuma within 5 km of the ...