US soil reveals uneven decomposition rates: new analysis shows carbon is released up to ten times faster in some areas.

Soil mapping by agricultural scientists at the National Agricultural Research Organisation (Naro) is crucial for sustainable development, particularly in agriculture and land management. It provides ...

A cutting-edge machine learning model has been developed to predict soil organic carbon (SOC) levels, a critical factor for soil health and crop productivity. The innovative approach utilizes ...

Soil properties underpin ecosystem functioning, agricultural productivity and environmental quality. A growing body of research is focused on understanding the spatial variability of soil ...

The USDA-NRCS has created the Web Soil Survey (WSS) as a clearance house for soil survey data from the Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO). Currently, there are data available for almost all ...

Notes: the subfigure shows an example of acidic soil areas defined by the World Reference Base for Soil Resources; the scatterplot shows the salt content of soil samples in five climate regions. A ...

Mangrove forests are among the most carbon-dense ecosystems in the world and valuable sinks for carbon emissions released into the atmosphere. Now a global map of soil carbon in mangrove forests at 30 ...

There is dearth of information on the quality of soils across Africa, including Nigeria. But plans are afoot for a massive soil survey project to be overseen by scientists stationed across the ...

THE Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Prof. Felix Salako, has said efforts to modernise agriculture are being done without sufficient scientific data on soil types ...