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Mosses are one of the planet's most common – and undervalued – plants. A large new study has finally given moss the recognition it deserves, highlighting its importance in maintaining Earth’s ...

Soil scientist Andrew Margenot holds a jar of soil gathered from Menard County, Illinois in 1948. The University of Illinois professor said he rediscovered the "church of soil" when searching an old ...

What is needed for plants to grow? How might you select which plants would be best to reforest a desert? How long do you think it might take to go from a desert to a forest? What positive and negative ...

Topsoil is a crucially important part of any garden. It is a term you often hear and a word you see in garden centers and online on products you can use in your yard. But exactly what is topsoil, and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Soil is soil, right? In some years, the dirt in your garden yields decent tomatoes and pretty marigolds while in other years nothing much grows. (Maybe ...

Midwest soil is eroding at an alarming rate according to new, first-of-its-kind research. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts found that the rate of soil erosion in the Midwestern US is 10 ...

Angelenos are understandably worried about the toxins deposited by smoke and ash from the Eaton and Palisades urban wildfires in January, but after L.A. Times Plants tested soil around eight burn ...