The Canadian prairie region is one of the world's "bread baskets", with over 46 million hectares of arable land. Organic crop production is a rapidly growing enterprise with over 1100 certified ...

Researchers create a global map ... two zones is very abrupt. "It only takes a small change in climate to achieve the switch from that acid zone to the alkaline zone and there are fewer soils ...

Scientists have found antibiotic-resistant bacteria in prairie soils that had little or no exposure to human or animal activity. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have found ...

But in the process of creating a global soil pH map, scientists realized the distinction was surprisingly stark. "Our analysis was able to confirm that the transition between those two zones is ...

To fix a damaged ecosystem you need to start from the ground up – with the microbes that live in the soil. The first step in that direction has been taken for the tallgrass prairies of the US ...