Humans are remarkably sensitive to the smell of geosmin, in particular. In water, it can be detected at concentrations as low as 4 ng/L, which equates to about one teaspoon in 200 Olympic swimming ...

Hotspots for soil nature conservation identified. The contrasting spatial patterns found for the three different dimensions demonstrate how complex it is to protect all three of them at once.

When it comes home gardens, there is one soil that the experts say is the best soil for container gardening, and it will help ...

Current protected areas only poorly cover the places most relevant for conserving soil ecological values. This is the conclusion of a new study published in the journal Nature. To assess global ...

All plants require 17 elements to complete their life cycle, and an additional four elements have been identified as essential for some plants (Havlin et al. 2005). With the exception of C, H, and ...

As the Wildlife Trusts head off to the regenerative farming event Groundswell, where soil health rightly takes centre stage, ...

Seiler cites two individuals who have been important mentors to him – David Brandt, an Ohio farmer who was a pioneer in the ...

A marshland nature reserve built with the help of more than three million tonnes of soil from the Crossrail scheme is to be expanded. RSPB Wallasea Island, in Essex, includes vast amounts of ...

Nature's Bounty: Soil Salvation Eating colorful fruits and veggies is great—but only half the story. There's surprising evidence that our mental and physical health depends on growing them ...

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Investigating the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp built on British soil 13:11. As nature gradually swallows up the crumbling concrete walls of a little-known Nazi concentration camp built on ...

First layers of soil to be laid on 101 Freeway wildlife crossing, the world’s largest Construction crews began the process of placing the first layers of soil over the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife ...