Soil plays a much bigger role in the spread of antibiotic resistance than one might imagine. Surprisingly, the ground beneath us is packed with antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)—tiny codes that ...

Why Should You Test Your Lawn’s Soil pH? What is soil pH? Soil pH is a way to measure acidity or alkalinity, be it lawn or garden soil. It is measured in pH units on a scale from 0 to 14. Extreme ...

Figure 5 shows that under a certain mixing ratio of solidification agent, the unconfined compressive strength of solidified waste soil at 7 and 28 d slightly increases with the concentration of PAM ...

The function of the pits and buried artifacts has always been the focus, but the microbiome around artifacts attracts less attention. Recently, the microbiome in buried ivory soil has just been ...

Every year, the world loses billions of tonnes of topsoil to overgrazing, deforestation, pollution and other threats. That, say experts, is a worrying trend. Soil supports the vast majority of the ...

Our planet’s survival depends on the precious link with soil. Over 95 percent of our food comes from soils. Besides, they supply 15 of the 18 naturally occurring chemical elements essential to ...