Throughout human history, our relationship with the soil has affected our ability to cultivate crops and influenced the success of civilizations. This relationship between humans, the earth, and food ...

"The information and the analysis presented here is an attempt to set trends of research in the direction of preventative and creative use of the plant-soil interface"--Back cover. Fundamentals of ...

I would like to introduce the 11th soil order, the ultisols. Ultisols (from Latin ultimus, for “last”) are generally formed from fairly intense weathering processes. During the intense weathering of ...

Achieving the Paris Agreement goals of keeping global warming to “well below” 2C, or to 1.5C, above pre-industrial levels will require rapid decarbonisation of human society. But national commitments ...

New measurements from New Zealand’s Southern Alps show that rock can transform into soil more than twice as fast as previously believed possible. The results show that soil production and weathering ...