Carolina Brandani, Texas A&M AgriLife Research soil scientist, is committed to connecting soil conservation with agricultural practices ...

Learn how to grow the most nutrient-dense vegetables by starting with healthy soil to get the nutrients needed to produce the ...

Mulch is something that is applied to the soil surface. It can be organic (pine straw, bark, wood chips, leaves) or inorganic ...

Many of us enjoy the outdoors, gardening or even tending to a small farm. But today, we feel the heat — literally — of climate change. It’s a global problem, and we often wonder how we can make a ...

There are many challenges in transitioning from chemical farming to organic farming in India, such as the lack of organic ...

While Curiosity and Perseverance have proven they can detect organic matter, their instruments can’t definitively determine all the answers about their origins, said Dr. Ashley Murphy ...

School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 518057, China School of Energy ...

The Lynx spring beans are being planted at 230kg/ha, with either 375kg/ha of 0-7-30 or 220kg/ha of 0-0-50 applied, depending on soil indices. The farm is also using a lot of organic manures, with lots ...

Department of Chemistry, The Materials Research Center, and The Trienens Institute for Energy and Sustainability, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States ...

They are used for purposes such as for animal feeds or remain on the field as green manure. In this way, they supply the soil with nutrients before the next planting. However, cover plants also ...

The lack of geological activity and the cold, arid climate on Mars have helped preserve this invaluable organic matter in a clay-rich sample for the past 3.7 billion years. It therefore dates from ...

Curiosity has seen organic matter in Martian mudstones before, but the new research describes the longest chains yet identified. Finding long carbon chains on Mars is significant because it shows ...