Did you know that soil contains 59% of all the earth's species? As an exhibition at Somerset House, exploring its vital role ...

A worm burrows its way through the dark earth, ingesting particles of soil and expelling nutrient-rich casts in a constant forage for food. Charles Darwin described earthworms as one of the most ...

Brown earth soils are widespread in Britain, except in highland areas. Soil organisms, like earthworms, mix the materials together, merging the boundaries between the horizons. These soils are ...

resulting in a soil storage rate of about 3 GT C/yr. Oceanic carbon flux rates suggest oceans store about 2 GT carbon/yr despite occupying a vastly larger proportion of the earth's surface.

Neglect of the soil beneath our feet could have far-reaching consequences for future generations in the UK and the rest of the world, an ecologist from The University of Manchester has warned. In a ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

but those may have come from Earth because the meteorites were exposed to the planet's soil and atmosphere while colliding with the planet. The latest analysis of the samples retrieved from Ryugu ...

How soil became sexy — yes, really - With a new exhibition at Somerset House, people are starting to re-assess their relationship with soil. About time, says Will Downes ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...