Matthew Wallenstein is a co-founder of Growcentia, Inc. His research is supported by grants from the US National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and USDA. Our soils are in trouble. Over the ...

We know that soil feeds plants, but do we know how it got there in the first place? Soil forms via the interaction of five factors: parent material, climate, living beings, a land’s topography, and a ...

Soil is the largest terrestrial carbon reservoir, holding more carbon than the atmosphere and all plant life combined. For ...

A three-decade study in southern China reveals that the physical arrangement of soil particles has a greater influence on the ...