Organic techniques yield plants that resist disease and insects better, and produce better quality and healthier vegetables. The soil from the organic farm had higher levels of organic material in it, ...

Soil solarization is a simple and inexpensive way to use the sun to prepare a garden for planting. Solarization involves watering a patch of soil, covering it with clear plastic, then allowing trapped ...

BRAZIL, — At dawn in this small Amazonian village in Brazil's Para state, flocks of noisy green parrots soar overhead as children run and play between wooden homes, kicking up sandy soil — in places ...

Buying fresh potting soil to fill your planters every year will get expensive. Save some money by mixing the old with the new ...

When words like micro- and nanoparticles are used, most think of pollutants themselves, not remediation. But sometimes, scaling down can be the way to solve the most complex issues in the environment.