Soil microbes remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it underground, revealing an overlooked pathway for storage in ...

US soil reveals uneven decomposition rates: new analysis shows carbon is released up to ten times faster in some areas.

Learn how nitrogen and helium end up in lunar soil, and why this helps us understand planetary habitability.

The Earth Rover Program today launches globally, introducing 'soilsmology”-a novel application of seismology that opens an ...

World Soil Day, established by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on December 5, is a reminder ...

Shortly after the U.S. Civil War, a research expedition encountered a group of Confederate expatriates living in Brazil. The refugees had quickly taken to growing sugarcane on plots of earth that were ...

Mars was a much warmer, wetter place once. Based on new images captured by the rover Curiosity, some geologists are saying there might be Earth-like soils on the red planet. Ancient fossilized soils ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- The dirt under our feet is being so changed by humans that it is now appropriate to call this the "Anthropocene (or man-made) Age," says a new worldwide overview by Duke University ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...