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 ...

Across the street from the Flamingo Visitor Center at the foot of Florida's Everglades National Park, there was once a ...

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 ...

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

This year, the cohort of cicadas known as "Brood XIV" will emerge from the ground and, much like many other animals during ...

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 ...

A recent paper suggests that if astrobiologists want to make an educated guess about what life on Venus might look like, they ...

When spring arrives it always reminds me of the life energy of the earth and how plants transform plain old dirt into food for us. How plants take the raw materials of air, water, earth, and fire (the ...

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 ...