Hardscaping does more than shape your space — it impacts soil health, water flow and the surrounding ecosystem.

Improve your soil by making biochar in the ground. DIY biochar enhances nutrient availability and also enables soil to retain nutrients longer. Last year, I committed one of the great sins of ...

These activities may include being in direct contact with the soil (earth) or using a grounding mat or device that creates a pathway between the body and the ground. This therapeutic practice uses ...

AT a small depth (from 12 to 40 feet) below the surface of the earth ... soil differs little from the mean annual temperature of the air, except on mountains more than 6,000 feet high. The ground ...

“The soil is alive; in one teaspoon of healthy soil there are more microbes than there are people on the earth,” says Mitchell ... and simple sugars into the ground via photosynthesis.” ...

With between 25% and 35% of his acreage seeded to covers each year, Stiefvater points out the species provide a living root for more days of the year, which protects the soil from wind and water ...

Soil, dirt, earth—whatever you want to call it ... by a peyote cactus as it extracts water and nutrients from the ground and exchanges them with buried fungi. Fungi are among the unsung heroes ...

Frozen ground would seem to stall microbes — especially in winter — but scientists have been finding robust emissions of ...

Scientists have uncovered dramatic shifts in California’s coastal landscape, revealing areas that are either sinking or ...