soil-microbiome

Mountain meadows and wildflower-rich grasslands many people hike through and depend on for clean ...

Oak and beech trees in your local park or forest are quietly cooperating underground, and underst...

A simple, one-time soil treatment could let home gardeners and farmers grow significantly more to...

If you add biochar to your garden or raised beds, you could more than double the helpful fungi th...

Understanding how plants 'listen' to helpful fungi could soon lead to crops that need fewer pesti...

Understanding how plant roots 'talk' to soil microbes could lead to farming practices that grow m...

Heavy metals from mining and industry contaminate soils worldwide, and this naturally-occurring b...

The weedy exotic plants taking over your native garden bed may be winning not just by growing fas...

Herbs you grow in your garden or see at the farmers' market may actually be quietly rebuilding th...

Invisible communities of microbes living in your garden soil and on plant roots are increasingly ...

If you've ever tried growing gourmet mushrooms or inoculated tree roots with mycorrhizal fungi, t...

It points toward a natural, fungi-based alternative to chemical pesticides and fertilizers for ol...

These beneficial bacteria are already living in the soil of your garden and farm fields — underst...

Pyrene quietly accumulates in garden and farm soil from car exhaust, wood smoke, and industrial f...

Compost you dig into your vegetable beds doesn't just feed your plants — it also accelerates the ...

The compost and living soil you build in a vegetable bed may be quietly cultivating a microbial c...

Same invisible soil bacteria that help your garden plants thrive can be knocked off balance by a ...

Bacteria living in legume roots do the invisible work of turning air into plant food, potentially...

Every bag of peat you mix into a new planting bed is doing the same heavy lifting that researcher...

The soil in a garden bed that's fought off root rot for several seasons may quietly be assembling...

That bag of composted manure or liquid fertilizer you're working into your vegetable beds could b...

Uranium-contaminated land sits abandoned near mining sites in dozens of states, and the microbes ...

Soil around old industrial sites often carries toxic chromium, and gardeners reclaiming that grou...

Contaminated brownfields near tanneries and factories could one day be restored using garden-wort...

Vegetable gardens on formerly industrial or heavily farmed land can harbor invisible heavy metals...

Salty, depleted soils are quietly swallowing farmland at the edges of every arid region on Earth ...

The compost pile you flood or the rain-soaked garden bed you worry about may be releasing carbon ...

If you grow food in soil anywhere near industrial or mining activity, this research points toward...

Pharmaceutical residues from treated sewage applied to farm fields can linger in the soil where y...

Invisible microbes living in your garden soil are what make your plants grow — and losing them to...

Brownfield lots, old rail corridors, and mine-adjacent land near your town may look barren, but n...

Every handful of soil in your vegetable garden may now contain microplastics that are quietly res...

Old military training grounds and quarry sites near your community may harbor explosive residues ...

Compost amendments and biochar you add to your garden beds don't just feed your plants — they act...

The compost you dig into your vegetable bed — and whether it's woody and lignin-rich or leafy and...

Old market gardens, allotments, and farmland near former pesticide factories may carry decades-ol...

Invisible viral world living in garden and farm soils influences plant health, nutrient cycling, ...

Tetracycline residues from nearby farms and hospitals quietly build up in garden soil and irrigat...

The brownfield lot your community wants to turn into a garden may be stalling its own cleanup bec...

Beneath every thriving garden bed, billions of soil microbes take turns waking up and going dorma...

Fluorinated chemicals from industrial sites are quietly moving through groundwater into the soils...