You've probably read countless seed packets and planting guides that use words like "sandy," "clay," "loam," and "silt" to describe the ideal soil texture for what you're planting. But you might not ...

Eric Hange of Medina SWCD shares how rainfall simulators and student curiosity are helping build a new generation of ...

Clay minerals have long been thought too large for plant absorption, but new research turns that assumption on its head. Scientists have discovered that wheat (Triticum aestivum) can absorb micrometer ...

If you fired up the rototiller this spring, you may have just dealt your garden a serious blow. For generations, turning the ...

It is a real problem: Microplastic particles are everywhere. Now a team has developed a method that allows it for the first time to precisely localise microplastic particles in the soil. The 3D ...

Soil contaminated with harmful perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) is difficult to clean, a complete remediation is often not possible. Perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl ...

Long before plastic existed, forests were already pulling pollution out of the air. Their canopies trap windborne particles and funnel them to the ground. This process is what scientists call the ...

If your lawn turns rock-hard and starts to crack in summer yet sits soggy for days after rain, you are gardening on clay. The ...