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 ...

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Afforestation transforms degraded soils in semi-arid regions, increasing microbial necromass and enhancing soil carbon and nitrogen pools, thereby improving ecosystem health.

Engineers have fine-tuned a method to restore oil-soaked soil to fertility while eliminating toxic hydrocarbons. Rice University engineers have figured out how soil contaminated by heavy oil can not ...