It’s a simple equation: If you want to grow better plants, you first need to understand the soil. “The texture of a soil is its proportion of sand, silt and clay,” said James Cassidy, a soils ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Over millions of years, wind and water gradually weather rocks, breaking them down into smaller particles that help form soil. That silty sand in your yard may have once been part of a towering ...

A year ago we showed you how poor management can destroy soil health and reduce yield (“A Tale of Two Soils,” October 2013). Farm A and Farm B are less than a mile apart and contain the same makeup of ...

The influence of soil temperature on nest-site selection by the semifossorial pine vole (Microtus pinetorum) was examined by presenting the voles with a dichotomous choice in soil temperature (19 C vs ...