Healthy soil sustains life. Minimize disturbance, keep living roots, boost biodiversity and maintain cover to improve yields, ...

Healthy soil is the heart of thriving gardens and homesteads. Knowing the complex makeup of soil and how to care for it, can ...

Mushrooms are popping up across the Valley. Here's one you should avoid. After a week of historic rainfall across the Valley, mushrooms are popping up in parks, lawns, and even along sidewalks. They ...

Long before humans built computers, nature built a better one. Razan Al Mubarak sees biodiversity as the planet’s original ...

Just below our feet, there is a universe that is busy, active and alive. Next Saturday, the High Desert Museum invites ...

Researchers have recently proven that common soil bacteria can use light captured earlier in the day to power chemical work ...

Marquandomyces marquandii is a common species of soil mold, and a promising candidate for the job. This fungus has had a bit of an identity crisis, being misclassified as Paecilomyces marquandii until ...

A new study from Boston University researchers found that the city's oak trees have more pathogens and plant decomposers.

Fungi are vital to natural ecosystems by breaking down dead organic material and cycling it back into the environment as nutrients. But new research from the University of Utah finds one species, ...

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From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured “ultraweak” photon emissions from living organisms. In rats this glow fades rapidly after death. In plants it brightens under stress. In the ...