Is your garden habitat-friendly? The goal of a habitat-friendly garden is to provide a natural environment that attracts and sustains desirable living creatures. We often measure our success based on ...

Change the organisms that live in soil and you can change the kinds of plants that grow in it. A field trial in the Netherlands has found that adding a thin layer of soil from a healthy ecosystem to ...

A new study shows that cycads, which are in decline and among the world's most threatened group of plants, provide an important service to their neighboring organisms. The study found that at least ...

Did you know that maintaining good soil is one of the easiest and most effective ways for farmers to improve production and their profits? Good soil is balanced. It provides an environment that ...

Charlene Janion-Scheepers receives funding from the National Research Foundation (South Africa). Although soils are vital for agriculture, biodiversity and clean water, this below-ground world is ...