Crops don't generally thrive in desert-like ground, but 1000 years ago farmers in Israel utilised refuse such as ash and ...

More information: Cong Wang et al, No-tillage practice enhances soil total carbon content in a sandy Cyperus esculentus L. field, Ecological Processes (2025). DOI: 10.1186/s13717-024-00573-x ...

THE influence of soil micro-organisms upon the physical condition of soil has received some attention in recent years. Various workers 1 have shown that fungi and bacteria and their associated ...

(WAFF) - It’s almost Groundhog Day and the yearly north Alabama tradition with an opossum kicked off on Friday in Boaz. Sand Mountain Sam is an opossum that predicts the weather around Feb. 2 every ...

Dubbed Sand-E, the beach cleaning robot was developed by 27 students from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). The team had wanted to come up with a solution to assist ...

Each morning Indian farmer R Murali opens an app on his phone to check if his pomegranate trees need watering, fertiliser or are at risk from pests. "It is a routine," Murali, 51, told AFP at his ...

I’m COO at Unstoppable Domains, and Alumni of AWS and IBM. I’m on the board of Altair, an AI company, a former member of the Diversity Committee at the World Economic Forum, and a founder of ...

Jeff Torborg, the former catcher who caught Sandy Koufax’s perfect game and was the 1990 AL manager of the year with the Chicago White Sox, died Sunday. He was 83. The White Sox said on social m ...

For more than 150 years, the 14th Amendment of the Constitution has granted automatic citizenship to any person born on US soil. As the courts moved to temporarily block his order, various media ...

Soil microbiology is the scientific discipline that is concerned with the study of all biological aspects of the microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, parasites and protozoa) that ...

Many people consider that sandy soil doesn’t keep nutrients as effectively as the silt and clay soil. We won’t deny it! However, that doesn’t mean having a sandy soil garden is a disadvantage thing.